Porgy and Bess

Name: Porgy and Bess
Genre: Music, Drama, Romance
Released: 1959-06-24
Duration: 138 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters

"The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!"

6.1(24 votes)

2h 18m

June 24, 1959

MusicDramaRomance

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.