Porgy and Bess
- IMDb link: 0053182
- IMDb rating: 6.9 (2,120 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Romance, Musical
- Director: Otto Preminger, Sidney Poitier, Rouben Mamoulian
- Cast: Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey and others
- Release date: 14 Oct 1959
- Release year: 1959
- Runtime: 138 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: south carolina, national film registry, murder, drugs, fishing village, love, based on opera, rescue, hurricane, african american
Plot
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A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly - if only everyone else would allow them to.
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted for murder. The only person willing to overlook her past and offer her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is threatened by the disapproval of the townspeople, the presence of her old drug supplier Sportin' Life - and the threatened return of Crown.
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