Trailer for the West Side Story: 50th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray.
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.
1 min 21 sec
Views
83,781
Posted On
October 20, 2011
Jerome Robbins
Writer
Jerome Robbins
Studio
United Artists
Release
October 18, 1961
Natalie Wood
Richard Beymer
Russ Tamblyn
Rita Moreno
George Chakiris
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