 | Few movies have achieved such a memorable opening as West Facet Story (1961), directed by Robert Sensible and Jerome Robbins, the latter additionally liable for the unique Broadway choreography. The opening scene, with out a single phrase, instantly immerses us within the stress between youth gangs in New York within the Nineteen Fifties. With music by the legendary Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and pictures by maestro Daniel L. Fapp, this movie turned a benchmark of the fashionable musical. It received 10 Oscars, together with Greatest Image. submitted by /u/1961Deckard |
