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Porgy and Bess
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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“The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!”
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Porgy and Bess (1959) Trailer
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- Jun 24, 1959
- 2h 18m
- English
- Otto Preminger
- Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, N. Richard Nash
- Released
- $7.0M
- $3.5M
