TY - ADVS AU - Lehman,Ernest AU - Wise,Robert AU - Robbins,Jerome AU - Wood,Natalie AU - Beymer,Richard AU - Tamblyn,Russ AU - Moreno,Rita AU - Chakiris,George AU - Fapp,Daniel AU - Stanford,Thomas AU - Bernstein,Leonard AU - Sharaff,Irene AU - Leven,Boris ED - Mirisch Pictures (Firm) ED - Beta Production. TI - West Side story T2 - Oscar best movie collection U1 - 791.4372 PY - 0000///[200?] CY - Taipei City, Taiwan PB - Evervision Corp. KW - Gangs KW - New York (State) KW - Drama KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - First loves KW - Feature films KW - Musical films N1 - 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; Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chikiris N2 - 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 ER -