Porgy and Bess 1959 DVD - Sidney Poitier / Dorothy Dandridge

Experience the legendary Gershwin opera set among the Black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina. Bess, a woman with a troubled past, seeks to escape her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted for murder. The only person willing to look past her history and offer her shelter is the kind-hearted, disabled Porgy. Their budding relationship is tested by the disapproval of the townspeople, the temptation and threats posed by her former drug supplier Sportin' Life, and the looming return of Crown. Cast: - Sidney Poitier as Porgy - Dorothy Dandridge as Bess - Sammy Davis Jr. as Sportin' Life - Pearl Bailey as Maria - Brock Peters as Crown - Diahann Carroll as Clara - Ruth Attaway as Serena Robbins - Claude Akins as Detective - Clarence Muse as Peter - Ivan Dixon as Jim Runtime: 118 minutes