Porgy and Bess

Name: Porgy and Bess
Director: Otto Preminger
Released: 1959-06-24
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters

6.1

June 24, 1959

2h 18m

Music Drama Romance

"Introducing a new era in motion pictures!"

Overview

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.