Porgy and Bess

1959·Movie
2h 18min
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65/100
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6.9
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Introducing a new era in motion pictures!

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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Directed by:
Otto Preminger, Paul Helmick
Written by:
N. Richard Nash, Ira Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Produced by:
Samuel Goldwyn
Composed by:
Fred Lau, Fred Lau, George Gershwin

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