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Watch West Side Story Movie Online Streaming No Downloading. Romeo and Juliet is updated to the tenements of New York City in this Oscar-winning musical landmark. Adapted by Ernest Lehman from the Broadway production, the movie opens with an overhead shot of Manhattan, an effect that director Robert Wise would repeat over the Alps in The Sound of Music four years later. We are introduced to two rival street gangs: the Jets, second-generation American teens, and the Sharks, Puerto Rican immigrants. When the war between the Jets and Sharks reaches a fever pitch, Jets leader Riff (Russ Tamblyn) decides to challenge the Sharks to one last "winner take all" rumble. He decides to meet Sharks leader Bernardo (George Chakiris) for a war council at a gymnasium dance; to bolster his argument, Riff wants his old pal Tony (Richard Beymer), the cofounder of the Jets, to come along. But Tony has set his sights on vistas beyond the neighborhood and has fallen in love with Bernardo's sister, Maria (Natalie Wood), a love that, as in Romeo and Juliet, will eventually end in tragedy. In contrast to the usual slash-and-burn policy of Hollywood musical adaptations, all the songs written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim for the original Broadway production of West Side Story were retained for the film version, although some alterations were made to appease the Hollywood censors, and the original order of two songs was reversed for stronger dramatic impact. The movie more than retains the original choreography of Jerome Robbins, which is recreated in some of the most startling and balletic dance sequences ever recorded on film. West Side Story won an almost-record ten Oscars, including Best Picture, supporting awards to Chakiris and Rita Moreno as Bernardo's girlfriend, Anita, and Best Director to Robbins and Wise. Richard Beymer's singing was dubbed by Jimmy Bryant, Natalie Wood's by Marni Nixon (who also dubbed Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady), and Rita Moreno's by Betty Wand. The film's New York tenement locations were later razed to make room for Lincoln Center. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi. If you like this Movie you can watch this movie HERE
Movie Release Date Oct 18, 1961 Wide

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Actors For West Side Story

Natalie Wood,Richard Beymer,Russ Tamblyn,Rita Moreno,George Chakiris,Simon Oakland,William Bramley,Ned Glass,John Astin,Penny Santon,Jose De Vega,Jay Norman,Gus Trikonis,Robert Thompson,Larry Roquemore,Eddie Verso,Andre Tayir,Tucker Smith,Tony Mordente,Eliot Feld

Genres West Side Story : Drama,Romance,Musical & Performing Arts

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User Rating West Side Story : 3.5
User Percentage For West Side Story : 82 %
User Count Like for West Side Story : 148,475
All Critics Rating For West Side Story : 8.2
All Critics Count For West Side Story : 61
All Critics Percentage For West Side Story : 93 %

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West Side Story is a beautifully-mounted, impressive, emotion-ridden and violent musical which, in its stark approach to a raging social problem and realism of unfoldment, may set a pattern for future musical presentations.
Whitney Willaims-Variety

Unhappily, the film shares a serious flaw in the essential conception of the show; both are founded on a phony literary analogy and on some potentially vicious pseudo-sociology.
-TIME Magazine

Decent 1961 adaptation of the Bernstein-Robbins musical, if you can handle Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood in the leads.
Dave Kehr-Chicago Reader

It is a great movie ... in parts.
Roger Ebert-Chicago Sun-Times

The marvel is that the film still works so well.
Michael Wilmington-Chicago Tribune

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.
Bosley Crowther-New York Times

[VIDEO ESSAY] Indisputably the greatest musical ever made, "West Side Story" (1961) has sadly proven socially timeless regarding America's eternally troubled immigrant experience.
Cole Smithey-ColeSmithey.com

Let's stand up and applaud everyone involved in this Blu-ray project, from the stunning transfer to the great set of extras, they did an excellent job with this Blu-ray set and produced reference quality work.
Michelle Alexandria-Eclipse Magazine

Even though I had to play it for my high school choir, I was never a fan of the music. Everything else - the cinematography, choreography and story are all pretty stellar.
Michelle Alexandria-Eclipse Magazine

You have to admire the way every aspect of the film works toward the emotional impact.
Hank Sartin-Time Out Chicago

West Side Story remains one of the best musicals of all-time.
James Plath-Movie Metropolis

An extraordinary song and dance experience laced within a quotidian dramatic tale.
Phil Hall-Film Threat

A landmark screen musical that left its own indelible stamp on popular culture. [Blu-ray]
Peter Canavese-Groucho Reviews

Fox's transfer of this dutiful, entertaining adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story is fraught with problems, none of which hugely damage the pleasure of watching and hearing the film.
Chris Cabin-Slant Magazine

it is the heat of West Side Story's social and cultural conflicts that make it a pop-culture landmark unlike any other
James Kendrick-Q Network Film Desk

It's impossible to begrudge the vertiginous energy and feeling that make this one of the great American musicals, and one radically told through dance.
Tim Robey-Daily Telegraph

A good stab at 'Romeo And Juliet', if a little on the anaemic side, but it's the singing and dancing which will really get your pulse racing.
-Film4

This adaptation of the Broadway hit has only half the vitality of the stage show. But even that half renders it a classic.
-This is London

Not seen it? Time you did.
Neil Smith-Total Film

...the film's minor deficiencies [are] generally canceled out by its pervasive atmosphere of good-natured exuberance.
David Nusair-Reel Film Reviews

stands proudly alongside other musicals that retain their relevance
John A. Nesbit-Old School Reviews

Bernstein's music, Sondheim's lyrics and Robbins's choreography are great, but as a movie it falls short of the truly inspired cinematic musicals.
Philip French-Observer [UK]

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