Porgy and Bess
- Introducing a new era in motion pictures!
- 1959-06-24
- Music, Drama, Romance
- Scatman Crothers, Maya Angelou, Ivan Dixon, Claude Akins, Sammy Davis Jr., Nichelle Nichols, Brock Peters, Pearl Bailey, Ruth Attaway, Diahann Carroll, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Clarence Muse, Leslie Scott, Everdinne Wilson
- $7,000,000
- $3,500,000
- 2 h. 18 min.
- 6.1/10
- 24
- United States of America
- Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures
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.