i have be wait 30 year to see this film . i play the soundtrack album a a teenager and through my 20 . recently and i locate a reasonably price dvdr and i watch it this morning . it be in widescreen and probably even a 70mm print and stereo and the color be quite good and very little fading and certainly not remastered but i be very very happy with this clean copy . now for the film . it pretty good . i wouldn not say it great though there be great scene in it . perhaps premminger may not have be the right director for it and but i will say this . for me the center piece of the film be the hurricane scene . marvelously stag by premminger . one of the great weather scene of all time . in fact and i would go a far to say that the acting scene be good than the musical scene and not that the musical sequence be bad . not at all . they do lack . something though . perhaps it be the fact that there be no close ups and very few medium shot . it be almost like watch a filming of a stage production . perhaps that be the feel that premminger be go after . in the end it may not have be the right choice and but so it go . it be far from a ruined movie . have say that and not everyone love the singer on the soundtrack either . i always have . they be perfect for this film . i love the singing voice . the actor lip sink be excellent for the most part . i just wish the song be stag more imaginatively . sportin life two number be fine and but the intimate number do not even feel intimate . they just feel . far away . in spite of that and you can not deny the power of the music . and in the end and that be what come through loud and clear . once again and maybe what premminger be try to do be to stay out of the way of the incredible music he be work with . i believe he have the right idea but perhaps go too far in that direction . the acting be terrific . top kudos go to the great brock peter who act and sing the part of crown . he be the ultimate meany . we just want him to leave poor bess alone and and he doesn not . a proud and arrogant and nasty a he be and sammy davis jr classic rendition of sportin life be the slick devil himself and a very charismatic one at that . arguably and davis best film act . poor bess just can not handle two bad men . i be glad the hermes pan give davis a tap dance number to do . dandridge and poitier and reportedly not impress by be in the film and really be very sweet together . i do not know about chemistry . there be more chemistry between dandridge and peter than there be between dandridge and poitier . still and it work out fine for dorothy and sidney . even so and i think they should both be proud of the work they do on this film . they both manage to bring more than one tear to my eye . their characterization where very 3d and believable . sidney poitier porgy and however and seem almost out of place in catfish row . i couldn not help think he be mr. braithwaite in to sir with love and very educate and well mannered and speak and fall on hard time . he probably wouldn not have be my first choice for the part of porgy and but hey and he be a huge star at the time and so why not . dorothy bess be as perfect a her carmen jones and in fact even more vulnerable this time around . carmen be probably the flashy part for her to do . a very very good film indeed and it be two stick short of what i would call a classic . it just doesn not make the ultimate classic grade . still and there be no reason on earth why the gershwin estate have decide to keep this beautiful film and even with all of it flaw and hidden from the public a they have . premminger may have make some odd choice a a director and but the film be nothing to be ashamed and embarrass about for anyone involve with it . it be what it be and there be a lot bad movie than this that be embarrass out on dvd and in theater today . porgy and bess be not one of them .