- HD 1080
- Runtime: 138m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Otto Preminger
- Stars: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters
- keywords: fisherman, musical, south carolina, based on opera, charleston, 1900s
- Production_studio: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Slogan: Introducing a new era in motion pictures!
- The Porgy and Bess is featured in the top rankings of 1959
- #27 in Top Romance Movies of 1959
- #81 in Top Drama Movies of 1959
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.
