West Side Story (1961)


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The screen achieves one of the great entertainments in the history of motion pictures.
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In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.
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Social InequalityGang RivalryUnrequited LoveLove TriangleStar-Crossed LoversRacial TensionForbidden RelationshipsCultural ClashesRacial HarmonyPrejudice And Discrimination
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Directed by: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, Daniel L. Fapp
Written by: Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents
Produced by: Robert Wise, Walter Mirisch, Saul Chaplin
Composed by: Leonard Bernstein
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