Two teenagers from rival New York street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, fall in love - but it causes already simmering tensions to explode. Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's Oscar-winning musical based on Romeo and Juliet, adapted from the stage play, starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno and George Chakiris.

In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.