Movie
Porgy and Bess
1959 · 138 min
A sumptuous, emotionally charged opera-film that sweeps you up in soaring music and a poignant, turbulent love story.
- Directed by
- Otto Preminger
- Genres
- Music, Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.
- Tagline
- The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
- 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.
- How it feels
- Romantic. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, addiction, politics, violence
- Content
- Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Otto Preminger
- Genres
- Music, Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.
