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West Side Story (1961)
In an attempt to end the struggles and wars between their families, a couple, Maria and Tony, who are deeply in love with each other, struggle against ending that war, in order to marry each other, but incidents come to climax, when they do so, as their families begin a bloody and violent war against each other.
26 February 1948, The Bronx, New York, USA
5 July 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA
4 January 1934, San Diego, California, USA
19 June 1941, San Francisco, California, USA
21 November 1937, New York City, New York, USA
2 January 1939, New York City, New York, USA
22 September 1933, New York City, New York, USA
4 November 1934, Waco, Texas, USA
December 29, 2011
West Side Story remains one of the best musicals of all-time.
February 09, 2007
Decent 1961 adaptation of the Bernstein-Robbins musical, if you can handle Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood in the leads.
March 02, 2015
Natalie Wood, who was made a hit in the Kazan-Inge production of Splendor In the Grass and is the most promising young star of today, gives a fine dramatic performance.
August 24, 2013
for all of its silliness for today, is still an epic film
November 16, 2011
Special mention, though, should go to Boris Leven's neo-expressionist production design and Daniel L Fapp's forceful cinematography: the crooked angles, pointed shadows and great swashes of red all heighten the mood of rabid fury.
August 04, 2012
[VIDEO ESSAY] Indisputably the greatest musical ever made, "West Side Story" (1961) has sadly proven socially timeless regarding America's eternally troubled immigrant experience.
January 26, 2006
How does the film -- which won ten Oscars on its 1961 release -- stand up now? Very well indeed.
April 22, 2012
Even though I had to play it for my high school choir, I was never a fan of the music. Everything else - the cinematography, choreography and story are all pretty stellar.
February 18, 2009
Unhappily, the film shares a serious flaw in the essential conception of the show; both are founded on a phony literary analogy and on some potentially vicious pseudo-sociology.
February 22, 2012
You have to admire the way every aspect of the film works toward the emotional impact.
January 27, 2014
Ten well-deserved Oscars -- plus a special award for Jerome Robbins's dynamic choreography -- adorned this electrifying and moving version of the magnificent Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim musical.
February 20, 2013
West Side Story is a beautifully-mounted, impressive, emotion-ridden and violent musical which, in its stark approach to a raging social problem and realism of unfoldment, may set a pattern for future musical presentations.
