Porgy and Bess (1959)

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

• 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.

Rating

6.3 / 10 (27 votes)

Release date

June 24, 1959

Runtime

2h 18m

Language

English

Director

Otto Preminger

Status

Released