6.2
The Desert Song
1929
Movie profile
Porgy and Bess
10.020022h 33m
Music
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.
Directed by Tazewell Thompson
Cast
Marquita Lister
Bess
Alvy Powell
Porgy
Timothy Robert Blevins
Crown
Sabrina Elaine Carten
Maria
Dwayne Clark
Sportin' Life
David Aron Damane
Jake
Darryl Reuben Hall
Company
Wynn Harmon
The Detective
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