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1959

PORGY AND BESS

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Drama
Romance
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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.

Director: Otto Preminger
Runtime: 138 minutes
Budget: $7 million
Box Office: $3.50 million
Vote Average: 61

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