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.
DirectorOtto Preminger
ProducersSamuel Goldwyn
ScreenplayN. Richard Nash
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LanguageEnglish
Production companiesSamuel Goldwyn Productions, Columbia Pictures
Budget7000000
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