West Side story [videorecording] / Mirisch Pictures presents a Robert Wise production in association with Beta Productions, Inc - Taipei City, Taiwan : Evervision Corp., [200?] - 1 videodisc (ca.154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. - Oscar best movie collection .

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1961

Director of photography, Daniel L. Fapp ; editor, Thomas Stanford ; music, Leonard Bernstein ; costume designer, Irene Sharaff ; production designer, Boris Leven ; choreographer, Jerome Robbins ; screenplay writer, Ernest Lehman ; directors, Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins Director of photography, Daniel L. Fapp ; editor, Thomas Stanford ; music, Leonard Bernstein ; costume designer, Irene Sharaff ; production designer, Boris Leven ; choreographer, Jerome Robbins ; screenplay writer, Ernest Lehman ; directors, Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins

Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chikiris.

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 Two New York street gangs were vehemently after each other. The warfare kept a Puerto Rican girl apart from her lover boy who belonged to the American gang. Eventually both reingleaders died in a street fight.


DVD ; Dolby digital.


Gangs--New York (State)--Drama
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
First loves--Drama.
Feature films.
Musical films.

791.4372 / WES