 | | | | | | West Side Story | 
Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - VHS | | | Format: | VHS | | Rating: | NR | | | Leading Role: | Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer | | Release Date: | Jan 06, 1998 | | | Director: | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | | UPC: | 027616529633 | | | Format: | NTSC (US, Canada) | | Condition: | Acceptable | | | Genre: | Musicals, Broadway | | | | | | Sub-Genre: | -- | | | | | | | |
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| Movie description | Considered one of the most popular musicals of all time, WEST SIDE STORY earned director Robert Wise an Oscar for Best Director as well as nine other Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Realistically portrayed characters and their surroundings and expert editing complementing innovative dance sequences mark this highly stylized modern-day Romeo and Juliet tale. The stage is set in New York’s Upper West Side in the 1950s, where the area’s slums are plagued by racial tensions acted on by two rival gangs: the Puerto Rican Sharks and the Caucasian Jets. In the middle of this mess is young, innocent Maria (Natalie Wood), a Puerto Rican seamstress whose brother, Bernardo (George Chakiris), is the leader of the Sharks. Despite the warnings of Anita (Rita Moreno), Bernardo's fiery girlfriend, Maria falls in love with a young, hopeful Polish boy, Tony (Richard Beymer), who used to belong to the Jets, now headed by Riff (Russ Tamblyn). When Tony, on Maria’s urging, tries to stop a rumble between the gangs, tragedy ensues, marking their dedicated love affair with violence and desperation. The infectious, lyrical landmark score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim help round out one of the greatest musical experiences ever captured on film.
| | Credits | | Writer: | Ernest Lehman | | Producer: | Robert Wise | | Cast: | Eliot Feld, George Chakiris, Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Russ Tamblyn, Simon Oakland, Tony Mordente |
| | Notes | WEST SIDE STORY was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1997.
| | Editorial reviews | "..Incredibly cool..."
Entertainment Weekly - Scott Brown (04/04/2003)
"...You'd be a fool not to buy it and once more savour the muscular song-and-dance numbers..."
Total Film - Total Film Staff (07/01/2003)
"[E]very Bernstein song's a humdinger with sizzling Sondheim lyrical gags. Cosily cool."
Uncut - Chris Roberts (12/01/2003)
| | Awards | 1961 Academy Awards, Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Irwin Kostal
1961 Academy Awards, Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Johnny Green
1961 Academy Awards, Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Saul Chaplin
1961 Academy Awards, Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Sid Ramin
1961 Academy Awards, Best Cinematography: Daniel L. Fapp
1961 Academy Awards, Best Director: Jerome Robbins
1961 Academy Awards, Best Director: Robert Wise
1961 Academy Awards, Best Picture
1961 Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor: George Chakiris
1961 Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actress: Rita Moreno
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