Porgy and Bess
(1959)
★ 6.3 IMDb · 27 votes
Year: 1959
Runtime: 138 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Сидни Пуатье, Dorothy Dandridge, Сэмми Дэвис мл., Перл Бэйли, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Scott, Рут Аттавэй, Клод Экинс, Clarence Muse
Plot
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.