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

Otto Preminger
Director
Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
Ken Darby
Original Music Composer
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
N. Richard Nash
Screenplay
Paul Helmick
Assistant Director
Dorothy Heyward
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