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This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:West Side story (Motion picture).
Main Author: Laurents, Arthur (Author)
Corporate Authors: Mirisch Production Company, Seven Arts Productions, MGM Home Entertainment Inc, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Other Authors: Wise, Robert, 1914-2005 (Director, Producer), Robbins, Jerome (Producer), Griffith, Robert E. (Producer), Prince, Harold, 1928-2019 (Producer), Lehman, Ernest, 1915-2005 (Screenwriter), Sondheim, Stephen (Screenwriter), Wood, Natalie (Actor), Beymer, Richard, 1939- (Actor), Tamblyn, Russ (Actor), Moreno, Rita (Actor), Chakiris, George (Actor), Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc DVD CD
Language:English
French
Spanish
Language Notes:Blu ray disc: English, dubbed Spanish, or dubbed French soundtracks; with optional French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, German, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Chinese, or Danish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
DVD: English, dubbed Spanish, or dubbed French soundtracks; with optional Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
Published: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios : [2011]
Edition:50th anniversary ed.; limited ed.; widescreen version; [Blu-ray+DVD combo].
Subjects:
Gangs > New York (State) > New York > Drama.
First loves > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Musical films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Description
Summary:This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Item Description:Collection includes feature film (153 min.) in two media versions: Blu-ray and DVD.
Based upon the stage play by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince; book by Arthur Laurents, which was adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1961.
Special features: "Pow! the dances of West Side story" in-movie viewing mode; song-specific commentary by Stephen Sondheim; music machine; "A place for us: West Side story's legacy"; "West side memories;" storyboard-to-film comparison montage; DVD contains West Side story digitally restored in standard definition, and music machine.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:3 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) and 1 book (39 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.) and 10 poster postcards.
Format:Blu-ray disc: region A; widescreen, aspect ratio: 2.20:1; 1080p Hi-Definition; 50 GB dual layer; 7.1 DTS-HD MA or 4.0 Dolby Digital (English), 5.1 Dolby Digital (Spanish), or 5.1 DTS French) sound formats; requires Blu-ray player.
DVD: NTSC; region 1; widescreen, aspect ratio: 2.20:1; dual layer; 5.1 Dolby Digital (English) or mono (Spanish, French) sound formats.
Audience:Not rated.
Awards:Academy Awards, USA; 1962, Oscar - Best Actor in a Supporting Role (George Chakiris); Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Rita Moreno); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color (Boris Leven, Victor A. Gangelin); Best Cinematography, Color (Daniel L. Fapp); Best Costume Design, Color (Irene Sharaff); Best Director (Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins); Best Film Editing (Thomas Stanford); Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal); Best Picture (Robert Wise); Best Sound (Fred Hynes, Gordon Sawyer)
Production Credits:Director of photography, Daniel L. Fapp ; film editor, Thomas Stanford ; choreography, Jerome Robbins ; music conducted by Johnny Green.