{"id":147,"date":"2011-07-13T11:17:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T11:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvdreview.biz\/west-side-story-trailer-1961-34th-oscar-best-picture\/oscar-best-picture-winner\/1960s-oscar-winning-films\/"},"modified":"2011-07-13T11:17:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T11:17:39","slug":"west-side-story-trailer-1961-34th-oscar-best-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/west-side-story-trailer-1961-34th-oscar-best-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"West Side Story &#8211; Trailer [1961] [34th Oscar Best Picture]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westside story is the award winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliette. The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff&#8217;s best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo&#8217;s younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Skarks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway &#8211; whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what&#8217;s happened, tragedy strikes and doesn&#8217;t stop until the climatic and heartbreaking ending. [IMDB.COM] Release: 18 October 1961 (New York City, New York) (premiere) Awards: Won 10 Oscars. Another 15 wins &amp; 6 nominations Producer: Saul Chaplin, Robert Wise Executive Producer: Walter Mirisch Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise Writer: Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents (conception and play), Ernest Lehman (screenplay), William Shakespeare (play &#8220;Romeo and Juliet&#8221;) Cast: John Astin, Richard Beymer, William Bramley, George Chakiris, Ned Glass, Suzie Kaye, Bert Michaels, Rita Moreno, Simon Oakland, Penny Santon, Tucker Smith, Russ Tamblyn, Robert Thompson, Gus Trikonis, Natalie Wood Genre: Musical | Romance | Drama [IMDB.COM]\n<strong>Video Rating: 4 \/ 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westside story is the award winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliette. The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs- the white Jets led by Riff and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[84,125,194,648,662,752,780,815,848],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1960s-oscar-winning-films","tag-84","tag-34th","tag-best","tag-oscar","tag-picture","tag-side","tag-story","tag-trailer","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/films\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}