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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
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters
Director: Otto Preminger
Director: Otto Preminger
Reviews for Porgy and Bess
The 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.
This 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.
That it stands as an entertaining spectacle and the director's best musical is secondary in interest to the Hollywood politics surrounding it.
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