Porgy and Bess1959
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
Director
Screenplay
N. Richard Nash
Actors
Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Ruth Attaway, Claude Akins, Clarence Muse, Ivan Dixon, Scatman Crothers, Nichelle Nichols
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 138 Minutes
Genres
FSK
12
About the film
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.
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Ratings
6.3tmdb