USA,
1959, 138 min
Screenplay:
N. Richard NashCinematography:
Leon ShamroyCast:
Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Clarence Muse, Ivan Dixon, Claude Akins, Nichelle Nichols (more)Plots(1)
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess – a woman with a disreputable history – tries to break free from her brutish lover Crown after he becomes wanted for murder. (MUBI)