NR2h 18m1959

Porgy and Bess

“The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!”

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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.

Director: Otto Preminger
Writers: N. Richard Nash, Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Heyward
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Release date: 24 June 1959
Budget: $7,000,000
Box office: $3,500,000