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10/18/08
Porgy and Bess (1959)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:4
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.4/10
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Pearl Bailey
Director: Otto Preminger
Reviews for Porgy and Bess
1 - 6 (sorted by date)
Top CriticThe brilliant score by the Gershwins and DuBose Heyward, however, will last forever, while Preminger's veteran cameraman, Leon Shamroy, did a wonderful job and the art direction by Serge Krizman and Joseph Wright is sensational.
10/23/07
Top CriticThis is a stunning, exciting and moving film, packed with human emotions and cheerful and mournful melodies. It bids fair to be as much a classic on the screen as it is on the stage.
03/25/06
Top CriticThat it stands as an entertaining spectacle and the director's best musical is secondary in interest to the Hollywood politics surrounding it.
05/24/03
Top CriticA mediocre curio.
12/08/02
Should this Porgy and Bess be locked away? It ain't necessarily so.
07/24/01
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