West Side Story [1961]

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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: DVD EAN: 7321900567336 Format: Dubbed Label: MGM Entertainment Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2000-02-01 Running Time: 145 Studio: MGM Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 1962-09-13
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Editorial Reviews: 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, West Side Story stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different neighbourhoods--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, colourful 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
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: One the best musicals Comment: Outstanding. I get bored sometimes with some of the long dance sequences in classic musicals, even in great movies like Singin' in the Rain and the Fred-and-Ginger musicals, but this is one of the few films where the dance is truly a pleasure to watch. The lead actors Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer are not often mentioned much in review but the youthfulness and sincerity of their performances is key to the film's success. Those who produced the film considered many options for these two roles and as with everything else, they got it right. Customer Rating: Summary: There's a place for us Comment: "There's a place for us, a time and place for us. Hold my hand and we're halfway there." Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim And there is a movie for us. "West Side Story" is a classic on too many levels to describe here. Everything from the music to the choreography to the actors to... One big plus is even if the story line is a classic they did not try to duplicate Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" with modern clothing. The movie still maintains the feel and action of the play. This movie tells the story of two people Tony and Maria (Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood) from adverse backgrounds that fall in love. They must cope with their new feelings. And to complicate things they have trouble from their families and society. Will they overcome these things or will fait and circumstance thwart their efforts and tragedy arise? I could write a book on what makes this movie great but it is best that you watch and judge for yourself. Customer Rating: Summary: There's a place for us Comment: "There's a place for us, A time and place for us. Hold my hand and we're halfway there." Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim And there is a movie for us. "West Side Story" is a classic on too many levels to describe here. Everything from the music to the choreography to the actors to... One big plus is even if the story line is a classic they did not try to duplicate 'Romeo & Juliet" with modern clothing. The movie still maintains the feel and action of the play. Just on the chance that you missed this movie the first time around, based on the Romeo and Juliet play that has been updated, it is the story of two people (Tony and Maria) from adverse backgrounds who fall in love. They must cope with their new feelings. And to complicit things they have trouble from their families and society. Will thy overcome these things or will fait and circumstance thwart their efforts and tragedy arise? I could write a book on what makes this movie great but it is best that you watch and judge for yourself. Customer Rating: Summary: Superb Music and Dancing Comment: 'West Side Story' stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the doomed lovers in the modern day version of the Romeo and Juliet tragedy, set to music and dance in the heart of New York's docklands. The advice, 'Stick to your own kind, Maria', haunts me, as I was much too young to cope with the ending when I first saw it at the cinema. However it remains a great favourite nevertheless! Superb dancing and music, right from the start with the opening song 'Jets'. Customer Rating: Summary: i LOVE to be in america!!! Comment: As a teenager acting in the show of West Side Story I found that this film is the best of the rest. Watching the film before producing the play was very helpful as the acting was superb and the music was amazing. The play is one of the best around and the script is just magical. I have to say though, the music and songs were the most enjoyable. I will never forget the play and the joy of being in the musical. The best in the business. Buy it. More Reviews