Release Date | 1959-06-24 |
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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.