Spielberg should never have made a remake of this classic. Masterpieces must stand alone.

Maria's warning: "What killed them is hate! Well now I hate" has been completely ignored and become a way of life.

I was 4 turning 5 years old. 1972. I watched the movie on our black and white TV.  My Mom had purchased the album.  It folded open like a book of songs and pictures of what I was watching. I remember matching each scene with the still photos as I watched.   Looking back on that time, I remember music and movement. That was huge for me.  The music matched the physicality.  I cannot explain why this movie affected me so deeply and forever.
So many individual moments with music and things I didn’t understand yet.

In loving memory of Tony Mordente, who played Action.

I grew up watching WSS every year it came into my TV.  I cried very hard with the  ending music.   I remember having a crush on Bernardo and Tony.  I was probably around 9 or 10 having to see it for the first time..  I was born in Manhattan on April 2nd 1960.  Can't believe that much time has gone by. WSS and the Wizard of Oz were my top notch favorites until 1973 when JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR came out and I had a new crush on Ted. Neeley .   I was hooked on the music ever since. In 1995 and :96 The musical came to Syracuse where I got to meet Ted Neeley twice and he remembered me!!

118 times I’ve seen it.
My favorite movie of all time.

Grew up watching this all the time since Tucker Smith was my uncle. He was the best and miss him very much.

The film is excellently directed and edited, with no unnecessary scenes - fast-moving and enjoyable.

I was 11 when I first saw the Film version of "West Side Story" in 1961, and I  Loved It... To this day, it's My favorite Musical... Even now, at 75, I will occassionally go around quietly singing "Maria" and "Tonight" and "Officer Krumpke"...

There is not one dull part in this movie. Every scene was done with so much style & grace & it take me back to my childhood growing up in Manhattan ghettos & loved living it.

I grew up with this movie since I was about 8 or 9 .   I had a crush on Bernardo !

I love Russ Tamblyn’s dancing.

Why aren't more people watching this?? It's even MORE brilliant now than when I saw it seven months ago. This is about the original movie--1961--that's right, that won 10 Academy Awards. I did love the new Spielberg version--a beautiful production--but the magic of the original is unsurpassed. THEN, go see the original movie on the BIGGEST screen you can get or borrow--with the best sound. You'll--be--so--moved.💓💞💕❤‍🔥👄

OMG - at last  - Jaime Rogers - he is one crazy-ass dancer - look at the way he moves in 'America' - wild, violent, comic, splendid!

My favorite movie ever!   Thank you!

At the end of the film I was choked - I was 16. I went home on the bus, choked, but holding it in.  I bumped into my friend's father walking to my home and burst into tears.  He said 'whatever has happened, dear?'  I sobbed 'I've just been to see West Side Story'!

Saul Bass was responsible for the magnificent opening graphics and dissolve to and then aerial shots of the Manhatten skyline. His closing credits were modelled on the walls of graffiti in the short walkway tunnel to fictional Juliet's fictional home - balconey and all - at Casa di Giulietta in Verona; but still a memorable place to visit.

My parents didn't want me to go see West side story because they felt that it glorified gangs. Thank goodness I went to see it anyway and fell in love with it!

Es la mejor película del Mundo.

I saw them first movie in 1961,I was 11yrs old. Love the dancing and singing and intensity. It really communicated teenage angst and needing to belong.  It shows the animalistic feelings that people give into when they don't have good examples of strong direction from their parents.  The best version is the first movie, by far.