1959
6.1 (24 votes)
2h 18m
Genres
Music
Drama
Romance
Production Companies
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures
Porgy and Bess
Introducing a new era in motion pictures!
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director of Photography: Leon Shamroy
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Director: Otto Preminger
Screenplay: N. Richard Nash
