Porgy and Bess

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6.1

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

Otto Preminger
Director
Irene Sharaff
Costume Design
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Howard Bristol
Set Decoration
Paul Helmick
Assistant Director
N. Richard Nash
Screenplay

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