West Side Story (1961)

  • 2hr 31m
  •  (1)
  • 86

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise

Producer:

Robert Wise, Saul Chaplin

Release Date:

Oct 18, 1961

Runtime:

2hr 31m

Synopsis

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Cast

  • Natalie Wood
  • Richard Beymer
  • Russ Tamblyn
  • George Chakiris
  • Rita Moreno
  • Simon Oakland
  • Ned Glass
  • William Bramley
  • Tucker Smith

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Based on 17 Critics
7.6

USER SCORE (67)

Generally favorable reviews based on 67 Reviews
100

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.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
100

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.

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Metacritic review by Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
The New York Times
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