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Porgy and Bess
“The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!”
★ 6.3· 1959· 138 min· Popularity 1NR
MusicDramaRomance
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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Release Date: 6/24/1959
Runtime: 138 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Otto Preminger
Budget: $7.0M
Revenue: $3.5M
Production
Companies: Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Countries: United States of America
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Keywords
fishermanmusicalsouth carolinabased on operacharleston1900s
