Porgy and Bess (movie)
- User score: 6.2
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Otto Preminger
- Production companies: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Genre: Music, Drama, Romance
- Budget: $7,000,000
- Revenue: $3,500,000
- Release date: 6/24/1959
- Run time: 138 min.
Movie description
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.
