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

Otto Preminger
Director
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
Daniel Mandell
Editor
Ken Darby
Original Music Composer
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Serge Krizman
Art Direction

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