Key Details
Release StatusReleased
Release Date1959-06-24
Languageen
Runtime2h 18m
Budget$7,000,000
Revenue$3,500,000
Production
Samuel Goldwyn Productions
6.3(27)
•1959•2h 18mPorgy and Bess
"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.
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