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Porgy and Bess

Music, Drama, Romance | 1959-06-24 | United States of America

IMDB6.2 / 10

Budget$7,000,000

Budget$3,500,000

Runtime138 min.

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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.

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Samuel Goldwyn Productions
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Columbia Pictures

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