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Porgy and Bess
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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Further watching
- Oct 6, 1993
- 3h 4m
- English
- Trevor Nunn
- DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, Ira Gershwin
- Released
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