Porgy and Bess(1959)

movie - first aired/released 1959-06-24 - 138 min - audience 6.3

Music, Drama, Romance

Directed by Otto Preminger

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.