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.

• DirectorOtto Preminger
• Release24 June 1959
• Genre
  Music / Drama
• Duration2h 18m
• Budget$7,000,000
• Revenue$3,500,000
• Rate
  

  6.1
  24 reviews
• Productions

  Samuel Goldwyn Productions