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Porgy and Bess

Name: Porgy and Bess
Genre: Music, Drama, Romance
Released: 1959-06-24
Duration: 138 min
Rating: 6.278
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters

movie19592h 18m★ 6.3Released

Music Drama Romance

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.

Budget$7.0M

Revenue$3.5M

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