Porgy and Bess 1959

Directed by Otto Preminger | Starring: Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., Claude Akins, Ivan Dixon

Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.