Porgy and Bess

Name: Porgy and Bess
Director: Otto Preminger
Genre: Music, Drama, Romance
Released: 1959-06-24T
Duration: 138 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters

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Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Actor: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Scott, Ruth Attaway, Claude Akins, Clarence Muse

Director: Otto Preminger

Years: 1959

Country: United States of America

Quality: HD

Production: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures

Porgy and Bess

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