Porgy and Bess

Movie · 2h 18m

Starring Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey

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.