The screen achieves one of the great entertainments in the history of motion pictures.
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.
- 7.2
- 1961
- Released
- 2h 33m
Natalie Wood
Maria
Richard Beymer
Tony
Russ Tamblyn
Riff
Rita Moreno
Anita
George Chakiris
Bernardo
Simon Oakland
Schrank
Ned Glass
Doc
William Bramley
Krupke
Tucker Smith
Ice
Eliot Feld
Baby John
Bert Michaels
SnowboyDavid Bean
Tiger
Robert Banas
Joyboy
Scooter Teague
Big Deal
Harvey Evans
MouthpieceSusan Oakes
AnybodysGina Trikonis
GraziellaCarole D'Andrea
VelmaJose De Vega
ChinoJay Norman
PepeEddie Verso
JuanoLarry Roquemore
RoccoNick Navarro
ToroRudy Del Campo
Del CampoAndre Tayir
Chile
Yvonne Wilder
Consuelo
Suzie Kaye
RosaliaNobuko Miyamoto
FranciscaMartin Abrahams
Kid on Bicycle (uncredited)
John Astin
Glad Hand (uncredited)
Francesca Bellini
Debb (uncredited)
Jacqulin Cole
Dancer (uncredited)Roy Goldman
Guest at Dance in Gym (uncredited)
Elaine Joyce
Hotsie (uncredited)
Priscilla Lopez
Child (uncredited)Lou Ruggiero
Police Officer (uncredited)Penny Santon
Madam Lucia (uncredited)
Marni Nixon
Maria (Singing Voice) (uncredited)Roxanne Tunis
Dancer (uncredited)
Released
en
$6,000,000.00
$43,700,000.00
- #new york city
- #immigrant
- #showdown
- #street gang
- #slum
- #love at first sight
- #highway
- #forbidden love
- #musical
- #based on play or musical
- #rivalry
- #feud
- #interracial relationship
- #tragic love
- #attempted rape
- #policeman
- #obsessive love
- #lifting female in air
- #young love
- #modern day adaptation
- #shakespeare in modern dress
- #romeo & juliet
- #music and dance
- #romantic
- #tragic
- #super panavision 70
- #dance musical
Reviews
**An old musical with some hints of ethnic prejudice, and it didn't seem as good as I thought it would be.** This is one of those films that, honestly, I find difficult to understand. It is a production that brought to the cinema an interesting Broadway musical, which is still shown in several places today, and which tells a story similar to Romeo and Juliet in the context of youth gang wars in
Not one for me. I did not enjoy 1961's <em>'West Side Story'</em>, unfortunately. I felt almost everything about it to be kinda crappy if I'm honest. For one I didn't feel any chemistry with the cast, with no standout performer in sight; and that's on top of the iffy casting itself. None of the music - aside from that one tiny bit of "Tonight" - hits and the story comes across as forced. The
Why do you kids live like there's a war on? West Side Story is directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland and Ned Glass. Music is by Leonard Bernstein (lyrics by Stephen Sondheim) and cinematography by Daniel L. Fapp. In the less affluent areas of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a