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Porgy and Bess

“The Goldwyn Touch!...more dramatic than ever before!”

1959 · 2 h 18 min
Directed by Otto Preminger
DramaMusicalRomance

Cast

Cast not recorded here

Plot

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row in Charleston is home to a crippled beggar, Porgy, who falls for Bess.

Sinekatalog’s take

Otto Preminger's film of the Gershwin opera, with Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr., has superb music and has been long unavailable.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (2,136 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.