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

Otto Preminger
Director
Fred Lau
Sound Designer
N. Richard Nash
Screenplay
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
Joseph C. Wright
Art Direction
Ken Darby
Original Music Composer
Samuel Goldwyn
Producer

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