West Side Story (50th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray Disc)
- Starring: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Rita Moreno
- Directors: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
- Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
- Rating: Unrated
- Running Time: 2 hrs. 32 mins.
- Release Date: November 15, 2011
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The winner of 10 Academy Awards, this 1961 musical by choreographer Jerome Robbins and director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) remains irresistible. Based on a smash Broadway play updating Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the 1950s era of juvenile delinquency, the film stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different neighborhoods--and ethnicities. The film's real selling points, however, are the highly charged and inventive song-and-dance numbers, the passionate ballads, the moody sets, colorful support from Rita Moreno, and the sheer accomplishment of Hollywood talent and technology producing a film so stirring. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim wrote the score. --Tom Keogh
The winner of 10 Academy Awards, this 1961 musical by choreographer Jerome Robbins and director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) remains irresistible. Based on a smash Broadway play updating Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the 1950s era of juvenile delinquency, the film stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different neighborhoods--and ethnicities. The film's real selling points, however, are the highly charged and inventive song-and-dance numbers, the passionate ballads, the moody sets, colorful support from Rita Moreno, and the sheer accomplishment of Hollywood talent and technology producing a film so stirring. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim wrote the score. --Tom Keogh
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- "Pow! The Dances of West Side Story" - All new featurette in which cast members, contemporary filmmakers, dancers and choreographers analyze and illuminate the film's famous dance sequences.
- "A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy" - All new featurette that takes a look back at West Side Story and the impact it has had all over the world.
- Song Specific Commentary by Lyricist Stephen Sondheim
- West Side Memories: One-hour retrospective documentary
- Music Machine: Allows viewers to go straight to their favorite musical numbers
- Storyboard to Film Comparison Montage
- Trailers
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