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Porgy and Bess

1959 · 138 min

Music · Drama · Romance

★ 6.3
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Trailer

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Crew

  • Director Otto Preminger
  • Screenplay N. Richard Nash
  • Director of Photography Leon Shamroy

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Intermission

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