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Porgy and Bess

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Porgy and Bess (1959)

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Reviews Counted: 5 Fresh: 4  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.4/10

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Genre: Dramas

Starring: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters

Director: Otto Preminger

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3.5/4

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.

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10/23/07
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4.5/5

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.

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03/25/06
Bosley Crowther
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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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05/24/03
Channel 4 Film
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2/5

A mediocre curio.

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12/08/02
Phil Hall
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Should this Porgy and Bess be locked away? It ain't necessarily so.

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07/24/01
Emily O'Neill
Village Voice
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