Porgy and Bess

Music, Drama, Romance

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Otto Preminger

Status Released

Release Date 1959-06-24

Storyline

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.

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