Porgy and Bess (1959)

"The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!"

NR ★ 6.1/10 (24 votes)

IMDb

2h 18m

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.