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West Side story
Title
West Side story [videorecording] / directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ; screenplay by Ernest Lehman ; a Robert Wise production.
ISBN
0792806980
Published
[Culver City, CA] : MGM/UA Home Video, [c1991]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (2 hr., 34 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in.
Notes
Feature film.
Originally produced as motion picture, filmed in Panavision 70, by Mirisch Pictures and Seven Arts Productions in 1961.
Based on the stage play produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince, which, in turn, was based on: West Side story / Arthur Laurents.
Digital sound, Dolby surround.
Technicolor.
LaserVision.
Issued also as cassette (VHS or Beta)
"ML102175"--Videodisc labels.
Director of photography, Daniel L. Fapp; choreography, Jerome Robbins; costume design, Irene Sharaff; production design, Boris Leven; film editor, Thomas Stanford; music, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Johnny Green.
Summary
A modern version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set amid gang warfare in New York City in the late 1950's, taking place in New York City's predominantly Puerto Rican West Side.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Credits
Director of photography, Daniel L. Fapp; choreography, Jerome Robbins; costume design, Irene Sharaff; production design, Boris Leven; film editor, Thomas Stanford; music, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Johnny Green.
Cast
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris.
Subjects
Also listed under
Mirisch Pictures.
Seven Arts Productions.
MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)
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