West side story
DVD - 2011
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Santa Monica, Calif. :
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment
c2011.
- Language
- English
French
Spanish - Other Authors
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- Edition
- Widescreen
- Item Description
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1961.
Based on the stage play produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince and the book by Arthur Laurents; play conceived, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins.
Special features: music machine. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (approximately 153 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Dolby digital 5.1 surround, Region 1 encoding.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: 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 ; editor, Thomas Stanford ; music, Leonard Bernstein ; lyrics, Stephen Sondheim ; choreography, Jerome Robbins.