West Side Story (1961)
Falling love with each other, Maria, a young beautiful girl from the Shark family, and Tony, a young courageous guy from the Jet family, struggle against ending the arguments and the fights between the two families, the thing that brings terrible for them, and leads to bloody circumstances.
3 December 1935, New York City, New York, USA
5 April 1939, London, England, UK
7 January 1941, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
21 November 1937, New York City, New York, USA
19 December 1945, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
5 July 1942, Brooklyn, New York, USA
18 April 1928, Runnemede, New Jersey, USA
29 March 1938, New York, New York, USA
April 5, 1939 in London, England, UK
28 August 1937, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
21 September 1937, USA
31 May 1944, USA
November 6, 1936 in New York City, New York, USA
2 September 1916, New York City, New York, USA
11 December 1931, Humacao, Puerto Rico
2 September 1941, New York City, New York, USA
1 April 1906, Radom, Mazowieckie, Poland
16 September 1934, Norwood, Ohio, USA
4 November 1934, Waco, Texas, USA
20 February 1938, Avoca, Iowa, USA
3 March 1932, New York, USA
19 June 1941, San Francisco, California, USA
December 13, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA
3 November 1924, Los Angeles, California, USA
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 22, 2012
You have to admire the way every aspect of the film works toward the emotional impact.
December 29, 2011
West Side Story remains one of the best musicals of all-time.
August 24, 2013
for all of its silliness for today, is still an epic film
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.
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 09, 2007
Decent 1961 adaptation of the Bernstein-Robbins musical, if you can handle Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood in the leads.
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.
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.
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.
January 26, 2006
How does the film -- which won ten Oscars on its 1961 release -- stand up now? Very well indeed.
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.
