Porgy and Bess

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6.3

NR

Genre: Music Drama Romance
Release year: 1959
Running time: 138 min
Country: United States of America

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.

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Scatman Crothers
Crabman
Sidney Poitier
Porgy
Brock Peters
Crowne
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Claude Akins
Detective
Nichelle Nichols
Dancer
Ivan Dixon
Jim

Otto Preminger
Director
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Irene Sharaff
Costume Design
Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
N. Richard Nash
Screenplay
Paul Helmick
Assistant Director

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