Porgy and Bess

1959 138 min 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.

budget $7,000,000 earnings $3,500,000 return 0.5x

director Otto Preminger

writer N. Richard Nash