Word: davises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 attempt to make a cinematic success of the Gershwin folk opera, with Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr. doing their best to relieve the stereophonic monotony.
The Scapegoat is a frayed, middle-aging English professor (Alec Guinness) who goes on a holiday in France with nothing to declare but a hollow in the heart. He no sooner suggests that "a man has to be empty before he can be used" than he has a chance encounter...
Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 worth of jazz, color and pomp, plus Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr., falls short of what the Gershwin folk opera could have been on the screen.
Even more admirable is Actress Carolyn Jones, who is required to deliver most of the old chestnuts ("Put your money where your mouths are"), but manages to give moviegoers one of the funniest, freakiest, most cussedly appealing heroines since Bette Davis, whom she strongly suggests, played the down-South tart...
Porgy and Bess. Sam Goldwyn's $7,000,000 worth of jazz, color and pomp, plus Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis Jr., falls short of what the Gershwin folk opera could have been on the screen.