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Porgy and Bess

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Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Release Date 1959-06-24
Rating 6.4 / 10 (20 votes)
Runtime 138 minutes
Budget $7,000,000
Revenue $0

Genres: Drama, Music, Romance

Directors: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian

Writers: Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, N. Richard Nash

IMDB: tt0053182


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