West Side Story
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Whitney Willaims
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...
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.
Dave Kehr
Decent 1961 adaptation of the Bernstein-Robbins musical, if you can handle Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood in the leads.
Dave Calhoun
How does the film -- which won ten Oscars on its 1961 release -- stand up now? Very well indeed.
Roger Ebert
It is a great movie ... in parts.
Michael Wilmington
The marvel is that the film still works so well.
Critic reviews
Whitney Willaims
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...
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.
Dave Kehr
Decent 1961 adaptation of the Bernstein-Robbins musical, if you can handle Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood in the leads.
Dave Calhoun
How does the film -- which won ten Oscars on its 1961 release -- stand up now? Very well indeed.
West side story Great musical. I knew most of the songs b4 hand cause my dad was singing them so i knew what they were like. It was like a musical romeo and juliet.
Cast and credits
| Actors | Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris |
| Producers | Robert Wise |
| Director | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise |
| Writers | Ernest Lehman |
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Audio language
English (Stereo)
Rental period
Start within 30 days, finish within 24 hours.
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Run time
151 minutes
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