West Side Story
1961
- Director: Jerome Robbins and Robert
Wise
- Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn·
- Why? It’s a musical
- Seen: Several times before. Now 1 May 2026
It’s the
dancing. And the songs, the ones that aren’t love songs, which are too sweet
for me. But ‘America’, ‘Officer Krupke’, ‘Cool’, ‘A Boy Like That’.
And the
Shakespeare, of course.
Sadly the film is badly flawed. Beymer is completely wrong and lifeless as Tony, and though I love Wood dearly, she’s too adorable here, and not convincing. Nor is their love affair. So
5* of 5 for the good stuff and 1* for the bad.
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