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Porgy and Bess
Otto Preminger

Porgy and Bess

  • Music
  • Drama
  • Romance

Introducing a new era in motion pictures!

RELEASE

1959-06-24

BUGET

$7.0M

LENGTH

138 min

Description

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.