
West Side Story (1961)
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- Natalie Wood
- Richard Beymer
- Russ Tamblyn
- Rita Moreno
- George Chakiris
- Simon Oakland
- Ned Glass
- William Bramley
- Tucker Smith
- Tony Mordente
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West Side Story remains a landmark of musical history. But if the drama had been as edgy as the choreography, if the lead performances had matched Moreno's fierce concentration, if the gangs had been more dangerous and less like bad-boy Archies and Jugheads, if the ending had delivered on the pathos and tragedy of the original, there's no telling what might have resulted.

What they have done with West Side Story in knocking it down and moving it from stage to screen is to reconstruct its fine material into nothing short of a cinema masterpiece...In every respect, the recreation of the Arthur Laurents-Leonard Bernstein musical in the dynamic forms of motion pictures is superbly and appropriately achieved.
