Porgy and Bess

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

1959 ★ 6.3 TMDB 138 min NR IMDb TMDB English Otto Preminger

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.

Music Drama Romance