Porgy and Bess

The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!

Release Date: 1959-06-24

Rating:6.3 / 10(27 votes)

Status: Released

Genres: Music, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 138 min

Director: Otto Preminger

Writer: N. Richard Nash

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.