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Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 (431 votes)

Released: 2003-10-07

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West Side Story (Full Screen Edition) by MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Details

Director
Jerome Robbins
Studio
MGM (Video & DVD)
Runtime
152
Rated
NR (Not Rated)
Binding
DVD

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Description

This brilliant (The New Republic) film sets the ageless story of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in 1950s New York. Directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins and scripted by Ernest Lehman, the film combines Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's unforgettable score ( Maria, America, 'somewhere, 'tonight ) with Robbins own exuberant choreography to achieve an exhilarating work of art (Saturday Review). A love affair is fated for tragedy amidst the vicious rivalry of two street gangsthe Jets and the Sharks. When Jets member Tony (RichardBeymer) falls for Maria (Natalie Wood), the sister of the Sharks leader, it's more than these two warring gangs can handle. And as mounting tensions rise, a battle to the death ensues, and innocent blood is shed in a heartbreaking finale.

Actors

  • Natalie Wood
  • George Chakiris
  • Richard Beymer
  • Russ Tamblyn
  • Rita Moreno

Format

  • Full Screen
  • Dubbed
  • Subtitled
  • NTSC

Editorial Review

The winner of 10 Academy Awards, this 1961 musical by choreographer Jerome Robbins and director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) remains irresistible. Based on a smash Broadway play updating Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the 1950s era of juvenile delinquency, the film stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different neighborhoods–and ethnicities. The film's real selling points, however, are the highly charged and inventive song-and-dance numbers, the passionate ballads, the moody sets, colorful support from Rita Moreno, and the sheer accomplishment of Hollywood talent and technology producing a film so stirring. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim wrote the score. –Tom Keogh

More Details

Binding
DVD
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Disks
1

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