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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 monotony...
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...
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...
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...
...Goldwyn has successfully preserved the atmosphere of poverty in a South Carolina slum without making it tiresomely realistic or stereotypical. The result is 136 minutes of powerful theatre. This is undoubtedly the most successful adaptation to date of a stage musical to the screen...