West Side Story (English, French, German, Blu-ray disc)

Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer star in this Academy Award-winning musical drama adapted from the Broadway stage show. A neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York, provides the setting for a love affair between Tony (Beymer) and Maria (Wood), a young man and woman caught on opposite sides of a gang war. Maria is the sister of Bernardo (George Chakiris), leader of the Sharks, and Tony is the best friend of Riff (Russ Tamblyn), leader of the Jets. The two gangs are sworn enemies, and nothing Maria or Tony can say will dissuade them from the violence which leads to the film's heartbreaking finale. The film won ten Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Score.

General

Studio:	20th Century Fox Home Ent.
Release date:	October 2011
Movie released:	1961
Actors:	Natalie Wood • Richard Beymer • Russ Tamblyn • Rita Moreno • George Chakiris • Ned Glass • John Astin • Bill Bramley • Simon Oakland • Tony Mordente • Marni Nixon
Contributors:	Robert Wise • Ernest Lehman • Leonard Bernstein • Stephen Sondheim • Daniel L. Fapp
Directors:	Robert Wise • Jerome Robbins
Dimensions:	170 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Disks:	2
Region encoding:	Region B. This Blu-ray disk will play in all South African Blu-ray players.
Audio format:	Dolby Digital 7.1
Video format:	Widescreen 16:9 (1.78:1)
Languages:	English • French • German
Subtitles:	Danish • Dutch • Finnish • French • German • Norwegian • Portuguese • Spanish • Swedish
Age restriction:	PG
Categories:	DVD > Musical DVD > Feature Film Blu-Ray > Feature Film Blu-Ray > Musical
LSN:	X01-LVF-9ME-2
Barcode:	5039036047685

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• Interactive Menus
• Enhanced WS tv
• Bonus Footage
• Trailers
• Commentary: Song Specific Commentary by Stephen Sondheim
• Other Documentary: 'A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy', 'West Side Memories'

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Eye-popping colour in this Blu-ray release

Sat, 29 Jul 2017 | Review by: Dirk Joubert

When 20th Century Fox first released this 50th Anniversary edition of WEST SIDE STORY in 2011, they made a mistake on the release disk which ONLY movie buffs and musical enthusiasts like me would notice. Unfortunately for them, there are thousands of people like me and they complained very loudly. So much so, that Fox agreed to correct the mistake and issue a new replacement disk free of charge to anybody who had bought the movie. This they did in 2012. To somebody who has never seen the movie or young people who were not exposed to the manner in which a movie of this magnitude was shown in a cinema it would pass unnoticed. But for those of us who are buying it to recreate our movie experiences of 50 years ago, it is cinematic blasphemy! The restorers replaced a cross-fade from the graphic art in the overture to the opening title with a fade to black. This breaks the continuity and ruins the sensational Saul Bass graphic design. You can watch the comparison on YouTube if you are interested to see what I’m talking about. So for any movie buffs out there wondering if this is the corrected version. YES, IT IS! However, the bad news is that the correction is almost as bad as the original mistake. The fade to black has been replaced with a fade to green and then immediately to blue (it should have gone directly to blue). NOT good! But this is a minor criticism. This reworked Blu-ray presentation is just sensational! The colours are eye-popping, from Bernados red shirt against the red wall to the mauves and purples of the rooftop scene and rusts and browns of the dance at the Gym. And the whole movie is as crisp as new toast. The digitally restored soundtrack is an absolute marvel and the surround-sound makes ample use of the rear speakers giving you that true "enveloped in sound" sensation. The second disk is jam-packed with great bonus material, a lot of it is new so it was not available on the original DVD release. You can also use the "Pow! The Dances of West Side Story" mode and automatically jump from dance to dance. This is a MUST have for any serious collector of movies.

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