Porgy and Bess

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

• Rated 6.3 out of 10
• Movie
• 1959
• 2h 18m
• Music
• Drama
• Romance

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

Starring

Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey