Watch Download
Image Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess

6/10
Release Date 1959-06-24
Runtime 138 minutes
Genres Music, Drama, Romance
Stars Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters
Directors Oliver Smith, Otto Preminger, Irene Sharaff, Samuel Goldwyn, Leon Shamroy

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.

Recommendations

Similars