Porgy and Bess (movie)
- User score: 6.4
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Otto Preminger
- Production companies: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Genre: Music, Drama, Romance
- Budget: $7,000,000
- Release date: 6/24/1959
- Run time: 138 min.
Movie description
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.
