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
Ivan Dixon
Jim
Nichelle Nichols
Dancer
Diahann Carroll
Clara
Maya Angelou
Dancer
Brock Peters
Crowne
Scatman Crothers
Crabman
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sportin' Life

Otto Preminger
Director
N. Richard Nash
Screenplay
Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Hermes Pan
Choreographer
Irene Sharaff
Costume Design
George Gershwin
Songs
Fred Lau
Sound Designer

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