The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
1959 · NR · 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.
Director: Otto Preminger
Writers: N. Richard Nash
Music by: Ken Darby, George Gershwin
Cinematography: Leon Shamroy
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Box office: $4M · Budget: $7M