Fresh
This is a stunning, exciting and moving film, packed with human emotions and cheerful and mournful melodies. It bids fair to be as much a classic on the screen as it is on the stage.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Porgy and Bess
The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!
1959 · 2h 18m · Not Rated
Drama, Music, Romance
Directed by
Otto Preminger
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Porgy and Bess
Overview
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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73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Should this Porgy and Bess be locked away? It ain't necessarily so.
Emily O'Neill, Village Voice
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