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Original title
Porgy and Bess
Released
6/24/1959
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama, Music, Romance
Production companies
Columbia Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Budget
$7,000,000.00
Revenue
$3,500,000.00
Runtime
2hr 18min
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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