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Call Number: VHS00557 Copy 1

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by Ernest Lehman; Robert Wise; Jerome Robbins; Natalie Wood; Richard Beymer; Russ Tamblyn; Rita Moreno; George Chakiris; Daniel Fapp; Thomas Stanford; Leonard Bernstein;

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: [Culver City, CA] : United Artists : MGM/UA Home Video, [©1988]

Notes: Originally released in 1961 (153 mins.); Based on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and the musical West Side Story written by Arthur Laurents; Nominated for 11 1962 Academy Awards;

Summary: Based on the Romeo and Juliet story, set in New York’s West Side slums during the late 1950’s, with gang warfare erupting when Maria, sister of the leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, falls in love with the leader of the rival Anglo gang, the Jets

Also: See the George Cukor version, Romeo and Juliet (VHS00127); the Franco Zeffirelli version, Romeo & Juliet (VHS00146); the Baz Luhrmann version, Romeo + Juliet (VHS00060); the Alan Horrox version (VHS00752); the Mohamed Camara interpretation, Dakan (VHS00318);

OCLC #: 82676744