Porgy and Bess
“The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!”
1959movie2h 18mReleased
MusicDramaRomance
Director: Otto Preminger
Budget: $7,000,000 · Revenue: $3,500,000
Overview
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.
