(# whistling)
(# Orchestra: Medley)
(# "Jet Song")
(# "Tonight")
(# "Maria")
(# "The Dance at the Gym")
(# whistling)
(fingers clicking)
(# "Jet Song")
Watch this shot. Shoot, man. Go!
Yeah!
- (whistles) - (blows kisses)
Gee...
(whistles)
- Hey, chickie! Chick, chick, chick! - Hey! Jet boy!
Hey, Jet boy!
Jet, Jet, Jet!
Yeah!
Beat it!
Hah!
Yeah!
Hey, Snowboy!
Hey!
Come on.
Beat it!
Chico! Chico! Olé, chico.
OK, here we go.
Jets! Hey, Jets!
Rocco, Indio! Let's check him, come on!
- ¡Mira, mira, mira! - Hey, Jets!
¡Ándale, chico! ¡Ándalelele!
Jets, come on!
Hey, Jets!
Hallo!
Jets, come on! ¡Por aqu¡!
Come on!
Come on, boys!
Hey, come on!
Jets!
Jets! Jets!
Agh!
(whistle)
Break it up, you punks! Cut it out!
Break it up, I said.
Come on! Break it up! How many times have I told you punks to cut this out?
- If it ain't Lieutenant Schrank! - (all) Top o' the day, Lieutenant Schrank.
- And Officer Krupke. - (all) Top o' the day, Officer Krupke.
- I'll give you the top o' the head! - You! Get down.
- But we're having fun. - We enjoy the playground.
It keeps us deprived children off the foul streets.
- Shut up! - Born like we was onto hot pavements.
Baby John, come here. Come here!
All right. Which one of these Puerto Ricans bloodied you?
- Well, sir... - Which one?
Excuse me, sir.
As a matter of fact, we suspicion that the job was done by a cop.
- Two cops. - At least.
- Impossible. - In America, nothing is impossible.
All right, wise guys. Now, you listen to me.
All of you!
You hoodlums don't own these streets.
I've had all the roughhouse I'm gonna put up with.
You wanna kill each other, kill each other.
But you ain't gonna do it on my beat. Any questions?
Yes, sir. Would you mind translating that into Spanish?
Get your friends outta here, Bernardo,
and stay out.
Please.
OK, Sharks.
Vámonos.
Boy, oh boy. As if this neighbourhood wasn't crummy enough.
Now, look, fellas... Fellas!
Let's be reasonable.
If I don't get some law and order here, I get busted down to a traffic corner.
I don't like traffic corners.
So that means you're gonna start makin' nice with the PRs from now on.
I said nice, get it?
Cos if I catch any of you doin' any more brawlin' in my territory,
I'll beat the living crud out of you and see that you go to the can and rot there!
Say goodbye to the nice boys, Krupke.
Goodbye, boys.
"Goodbye, boys."
Jail? Gee!
You hoodlums don't own the streets.
- Go play in the park. - Keep off of the grass.
- Get out of the house. - Keep off the block.
Keep off the world. A gang that don't own the street is nothin'!
We do own it!
Come on, Jets. Round up.
- Not you, Anybodys. - Riff, you've gotta let me in the gang!
Didn't you just see me? I was smash. I'm a killer, I wanna fight.
How else will she get a guy to touch her?
- You dirty rat! - The road, little girl, the road!
Beat it.
- Beat it! - OK, come on.
OK, listen. We fought hard for this turf and we ain't just gonna give it up.
The Emeralds claimed it, we shut 'em out. We knocked the Hawks down the cellar.
- These PRs are different. - They keep comin'.
- Close the windows. - Shut the doors.
Help! I'm drowning in tamale.
You heard Lieutenant Schrank. We gotta make nice with them Puerto Ricans.
Are we gonna let 'em move in and take it all away from us?
- No. - You're damn right, no.
So what are we gonna do, buddy boys?
I'll tell you what we're gonna do.
We're gonna speed fast. We're gonna move like lightning!
We're gonna clean them Sharks up once and for all,
so they ain't never gonna set foot on our turf again.
We're gonna do it in one all-out fight.
- A rumble! - Cool it, Action boy.
The Sharks want a piece of this world too.
They're real down boys.
They might ask for blades, zip guns.
Zip guns?
Well, gee.
I ain't finalisin' and sayin' they will, Baby John.
I'm just sayin' that they might.
And we gotta be prepared.
What's your mood, Jets?
- I say go, go. - I say mix.
- I say sock 'em. - Tear 'em!
- But if they say blades or guns? - Let's forget the whole thing.
- What? - What do you say, Riff?
I say this turf is small, but it's all we got.
I wanna hold it like we always held it. With skin!
But if they say blades, I say blades.
If they say guns, I say guns.
I say I want the Jets to be the number one.
- To sail! To hold the sky! - Then rev us off! Voom va-voom!
- Cracko jacko! - Pam pam!
OK, cats, we rumble. Now...
Protocality calls for a war council with the Sharks to set it all up.
I will personally give the bad news to Bernardo.
- Take a lieutenant. - That's me.
- That's Tony. - Who needs Tony?
We need Tony. He's got a rep that's bigger than the whole West Side.
- He don't belong no more. - Cut it, Action!
- Me and Tony started the Jets. - So where is he?
- How come he takes a lousy job? - Youth board corrupted him.
Temporary sickness. Wait and see.
Them fists when we beat the Emeralds!
- He saved my ever-lovin' neck. - He'll do it again, too.
He always came through for us. He always will.
# When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way
# From your first cigarette to your last dying day
# When you're a Jet, let 'em do what they can
# You've got brothers around, you're a family man
# You're never alone
# You're never disconnected
# You're home with your own when company's expected
# You're well protected
# Then you are set with a capital J
# Which you'll never forget till they cart you away
# When you're a Jet, you stay a Jet
I know Tony like I know me. You can count him in.
- In, out - let's get cracking. - Where will you find Bernardo?
- He'll be at the dance. - That's neutral territory.
A-rab, I'll make nice with him. I'll only challenge him.
Great, daddy-o!
Everybody dress up sweet and sharp. Meet Tony and me at the dance at 10.
- And walk tall! - We always walk tall!
- We're Jets! - The greatest!
# When you're a Jet, you're the top cat in town
# You're the gold-medal kid with the heavyweight crown
# When you're a Jet, you're the swingingest thing
# Little boy, you're a man
# Little man, you're a king
# The Jets are in gear, our cylinders are clickin'
# The Sharks'll steer clear, cos every Puerto Rican's a lousy chicken
# Here come the Jets like a bat outta hell
# Someone gets in our way, someone don't feel so well
# Here come the Jets - little world, step aside
# Better go underground, better run, better hide
# We're drawin' the line, so keep your noses hidden
# We're hangin' a sign, says "Visitors forbidden"
# And we ain't kiddin'
# Here come the Jets, yeah, and we're gonna beat
# Every last buggin' gang on the whole buggin' street
# On the whole buggin', ever-lovin' street
Yeah!
- Tony, you're not even listenin'. - I hear you, Riff.
Then why don't you answer?
I don't want to hurt you. You're my best friend.
Womb to tomb?
Birth to earth!
That's why you gotta come to the dance tonight and stand up with me.
Come on, Tony. Just say yes.
Riff.
Did you ever stop to figure how many bubbles are in one bottle of soda pop?
- Tony, this is important. - Everything's important, Riff.
You, me, the sweet guy I work for.
The Sharks walk bad. They bite hard. If we don't stop 'em now...
- Here! Work for a living. - How do you like that?
Four years I live with a buddy and his family. I think I'm diggin' his character.
Boy, am I a victim of disappointment in you.
End your sufferin', little man. Why don't you pack up your gear and move out?
Cos your ma's hot for me.
No! No, it's cos I hate livin' with my buggin' uncle.
- Come on! Come on! - Uncle! Uncle!
Now... Go play games with the Jets.
Why not? They're the greatest.
- Ain't they? - Were.
Were? You found somethin' better?
No. Not yet, but...
But what?
You won't dig it, Riff.
So try me.
Come on, Tony. Try me.
OK.
Every single night for the last month,
I wake up and I'm reachin' out.
- For what? - I don't know.
A dame?
It's right outside the door... just around the corner.
- But it's comin'. - What is?
I don't know.
It's like the kick I used to get from being a Jet.
Now you're talkin'! Man, without a gang, you're an orphan!
With a gang, you walk in twos, threes, fours.
When your crew is the best, when you're a Jet,
you're out in the sun, you're home free home.
Riff, I've had it.
Tony.
Tony, look at me, will you?
I'm looking at you.
I never asked the time of day from a clock, did I?
I never asked nothing from nobody.
But I'm askin' you - come to the dance tonight.
- I promised Doc I'd clean up the store. - Do it after the dance.
Tony, I already told the guys you'd be there.
If you don't show, I'll be marked lousy.
- What time did you tell 'em? - 10.
For me, Tony. For Riff.
10 it is.
- Womb to tomb? - Birth to earth. I'll live to regret this.
Maybe what you're waiting for will be at the dance.
Yeah. Who knows?
Who knows?
# could be
# Who knows?
# There's something due any day, I will know right away
# Soon as it shows
# It may come cannonballin' down through the sky
# Gleam in its eye, bright as a rose
# Who knows?
# It's only just out of reach, down the block, on a beach
# Under a tree
# I got a feeling there's a miracle due, gonna come true
# comin' to me
# could it be?
# Yes, it could
# Something's comin', something good
# If I can wait
# Something's comin', I don't know what it is
# But it is gonna be great
# With a click, with a shock
# Phone'll jingle, door'll knock
# Open the latch
# Something's comin' - don't know when, but it's soon
# catch the moon, one-handed catch
# Around the corner
# Or whistlin' down the river
# come on, deliver to me
# Will it be?
# Yes, it will
# Maybe just by holding still
# It'll be there
# come on, something, come on in, don't be shy
# Meet a guy, pull up a chair
# The air is hummin'
# And something great is comin'
# Who knows?
# It's only just out of reach, down the block, on a beach
# Maybe tonight
Por favor, Anita. You are my friend. You must make the neck lower.
Stop heckling me. We are working on our time now, not the old lady's.
One inch. How much can one little inch do?
Too much.
Anita, it is now to be a dress for dancing, no longer for praying.
Listen, with those boys, you can start in dancing and end up praying.
Querida, one little inch.
- Un poquitito. - Bernardo made me promise.
Bernardo! One month have I been in this country. Do I ever touch excitement?
I sew here all day. I sit at home all night.
For what did my fine brother bring me here?
- To marry chino. - Chino.
When I look at chino, nothing happens.
- What do you expect to happen? - I don't know. Something.
What happens when you look at Bernardo?
It's when I don't look that it happens.
I think I will tell Mama and Papa
about you and Nardo in the balcony of the movies.
- I will rip this to shreds! - No.
But if you perhaps could manage to lower the neck...
Next year.
- I hate that dress! - Then don't wear it,
and don't come to the dance tonight.
- Don't come? - Here!
- Could we not dye it red at least? - No, we could not.
White is for babies.
I will be the only one there in a white...
Ah...
- Oh, sí. - Ah.
It is a beautiful dress.
- I love you! - (knocking)
- Are you ready, ladies? - Nardo, come in.
- Is it not beautiful? - Ah, yes. Very.
- I didn't quite hear. - Very beautiful.
- Come in, chino. Do not be afraid. - But this is a shop for ladies.
We won't bite you, till we know you better.
Chino, keep both eyes on Maria tonight in case I cannot.
- You too, Anita. - My brother is a silly watchdog.
My sister is a precious jewel.
What am I? Cut glass?
Nardo, it is most important that I have a wonderful time tonight.
Because tonight is the real beginning of my life
as a young lady of America.
Get outta here!
Hey, Nardo, ¿ cómo estás?
Come on, guys.
Maria. Hey, Maria.
- Look what I got. - Hi, consuelo.
These are some of my friends you have not met.
- Hey. Pick up. - (Maria) How are you?
- This is Loco. - Mucho gusto.
- Teresita. My sister, Maria. - Good evening.
- This is Luis Arruza. - Encantada.
- Rosalia, hi! - Oye, Nardo.
All right, boys and girls, all right.
Attention, please.
Attention!
This is a fine turnout we have here tonight.
It's all for you, Glad Hand.
I know all you boys and girls are here because you wanna make new friends,
and get closer to old ones.
So, tonight we're gonna do something special.
We're gonna have a get-together dance.
Ginger-peachy!
All right, now. Kids... kids.
- I want you to form two circles. - How many?
Two. Boys on the outside and girls on the inside.
Where are you?
All right.
Now, when the music stops,
each boy dances with whichever girl is opposite.
OK?
Two circles, kids.
- It won't hurt you to try. - Ooh! It hurts, it hurts.
Snowboy.
That's it, kids. Keep the ball rolling.
Around she goes, and where she stops nobody knows.
All right, here we go. (blows whistle)
(music starts)
Boys to my right and girls to my left.
(whistle)
(# "The Dance At The Gym")
- Mambo! - Mambo!
Go!
Hey, Tony.
Mambo!
You're not thinkin' I'm someone else?
I know you are not.
Or that we've met before?
I know we have not.
I felt... I knew somethin' never before was gonna happen, had to happen,
- but this is so much more. - My hands are cold.
Yours, too.
So warm.
So beautiful.
Beautiful.
It's so much to believe.
You are not making a joke?
I have not yet learned how to joke that way.
I think now I never will.
(whistle)
Get your hands off, American! Stay away from my sister.
- Didn't you see he's one of them? - I saw only him.
- There's only one thing they want. - That's a lie!
Get away.
- Don't listen. - She will listen to me.
- If you wanna settle this... - Boys! Everything was going well.
- (boy whistles) - Come on, we're all here to have fun!
Nardo...
- Take her out. We're going home. - Nardo, it is my first dance.
Please, we are family. Go.
Come, Maria.
Maria.
- I don't want you. - I want you, though.
(chuckles)
I want you for a war council. Jets and Sharks.
- The pleasure is mine. - Let's go outside.
I would not leave the ladies alone with your kind around.
We will meet you at midnight.
- Doc's candy store? - Mm-hm.
And no jazz before then.
I understand the rules... native boy.
Ice.
- Doc's at midnight. Spread the word. - Right, daddy-o.
Maria.
# The most beautiful sound I ever heard
# Maria
# Maria, Maria, Maria
# All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word
# Maria
# Maria, Maria, Maria
# Maria, Maria
# Maria
# I just met a girl named Maria
# And suddenly that name
# Will never be the same to me
# Maria
# I just kissed a girl named Maria
# And suddenly I've found
# How wonderful a sound can be
# Maria
# Say it loud and there's music playing
# Say it soft
# And it's almost like praying
# Maria
# I'll never stop saying
# Maria
# Maria, Maria
# Maria
# Maria, Maria, Maria
# Say it loud and there's music playing
# Say it soft
# And it's almost like praying
# Maria
# I'll never stop saying
# Maria
# The most beautiful sound I ever heard
# Maria
I do not say these things to spoil your evening or to hear myself talk.
- I am here longer than you. - S¡, Nardo.
When you are old and married with five children, you can tell me what to do.
But now it is the other way around.
Now go to bed.
He's the old married woman.
You know, she has a mother. Also a father.
- They do not know this country. - And you do not know it at all.
Girls here are free to have fun. She is in America now.
Puerto Rico is in America now.
Sometimes I don't know which is thicker, your skull or your accent.
- Vámonos, muchachos. - Let them wait.
- Is Maria all right? - I should be so all right.
It will not happen again. Pepe, Indio! Tonight things will be settled.
- First, settle your stomach. - Never mind my stomach.
Well, I mind your nose and your head broken.
- Broken? - Sure.
Maria is an excuse to start World War III.
- It is more than that. - More than what?
- She was only dancing. - With an American, who's really a Polack.
- Says the Spic. - (murmuring)
- You are not so cute. - That Tony is.
- And he works. - A delivery boy.
- And what are you? - An assistant.
And chino makes half of what the Polack makes.
Here comes the commercial.
Your mother's a Pole, your father's a Swede.
You were born here, that's all that you need. You are an American.
But us? Foreigners!
(all) Lice! Cockroaches!
But it's true.
When I think of how I thought it would be for us here.
- We came like children, believing... - Trusting, with our hearts open!
- With our arms open! - You came with your mouth open.
- You'll go back in handcuffs. - I'm going back in a cadillac.
- Air-conditioned. - Telephone.
- And television. - Compatible colour.
If you had all that here, why would you go back to Puerto Rico?
Even if you didn't have all that here, why go back?
- It's so good here? - It's so good there? We had nothing.
We still have nothing, only more expensive.
- Anita Josefina Beatriz... - No, no. It's plain Anita now.
- ...et cetera, et cetera. - Leave me alone. At least I left.
Once an immigrant, always an immigrant.
Instead of a shampoo, she's been brainwashed.
Stop it!
She has given up Puerto Rico and now she is queer for Uncle Sam.
Oh, no. That's not true.
# Puerto Rico
# My heart's devotion
# Let it sink back in the ocean
# Always the hurricanes blowing
# Always the population growing
# And the money owing
# And the sunlight streaming
# And the natives steaming
- # I like the island Manhattan - I know you do!
# Smoke on your pipe
# And put that in
# I like to be in America
# OK by me in America
# Everything free in America
# For a small fee in America
¡Olé!
# Buying on credit is so nice
# One look at us and they charge twice
# I have my own washing machine
# What will you have, though, to keep clean?
# Skyscrapers bloom in America
# cadillacs zoom in America
# Industry boom in America
# 12 in a room in America
# Lots of new housing with more space
# Lots of doors slamming in our face
# I'll get a terrace apartment
# Better get rid of your accent
# Life can be bright in America
# If you can fight in America
# Life is all right in America
# If you're all white in America
# La la la la la America
# America
# La la la la la America
# America
# Here you are free and you have pride
# Long as you stay on your own side
# Free to be anything you choose
# Free to wait tables and shine shoes
# Everywhere grime in America
# Organised crime in America
# Terrible time in America
# You forget I'm in America
# I think I go back to San Juan
# I know a boat you can get on
Bye-bye!
# Everyone there will give big cheer
# Everyone there will have moved here
Ow ow ow!
Ow ow oooow!
Eh, muchachos. Vámonos, muchachos. Es tarde ya.
¡corre, es tarde! come on!
Hey, chino.
What are you doing?
- Meet me on the roof later. - "Meet me on the roof later."
- Will you or won't you? - "Will you or won't you?"
Hey!
Will you?
You have your big important war council.
The council... or me?
First one...
- then the other. - (laughs)
No. I'm an American girl now. I don't wait.
Back home, women know their place.
Back home, little boys don't have war councils.
But they do here.
You want me to be an American, don't you?
Buenas noches, Anita... Josefina
Teresita Beatriz del carmen Margarita
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
- Immigrant! - Buenas noches.
Ten cuidado.
- Buenas noches, Maria. - Adiós, Maria.
- Good night, Maria. - Good night.
(softly) Maria.
Maria.
- Maria! - Sh!
- Maria. - Quiet.
- Come down. - No.
- Maria... - Please.
My mother and father will wake up.
- Just for a minute. - A minute is not enough.
- For an hour, then. - I cannot.
- Then for ever. - Ssh!
- I'm coming up. - (man) Maria!
Un momentito, papá. Now see what you've done.
- Momentito, Maria. - Cállate.
- Ssh! - Ssh!
It is dangerous. If Bernardo knew...
Well, let him know. I'm not one of 'em, Maria.
But you are not one of us and I am not one of you.
- To me, you're all the beautiful... - Maruca.
S¡, ya vengo, papá.
- Maruca? - His pet name for me.
I like him and he will like me.
No. He is like Bernardo... Afraid.
- Imagine being afraid of you. - You see?
- I see you. - Oh, Maria. See only me.
# Only you
# You're the only thing I'll see for ever
# In my eyes, in my words and in everything I do
# Nothing else but you, ever
# And there's nothing for me but Maria
# Every sight that I see is Maria
# Tony, Tony
# Always you, every thought I'll ever know
- # Everywhere I go, you'll be - # All the world is only you and me
# Tonight, tonight
# It all began tonight
# I saw you and the world went away
# Tonight, tonight
# There's only you tonight
# What you are, what you do, what you say
# Today, all day I had the feeling
# A miracle would happen
# I know now I was right
# For here you are
# And what was just a world is a star
# Tonight
# Tonight, tonight
# The world is full of light
# With suns and moons all over the place
# Tonight, tonight
# The world is wild and bright
# Going mad
# Shooting sparks into space
# Today, the world was just an address
# A place for me to live in
# No better than all right
# But here you are
# And what was just a world is a star
# Tonight
(man) Maruca, es tarde.
- I cannot stay. Go quickly. - I'm not afraid.
Please.
Good night.
Buenas noches.
I love you.
Yes.
Yes, hurry.
Tony?
- When will I see you? - Tomorrow.
I work at the bridal shop across the street. Madam Lucia's.
- I'll come there. - At closing time, 6.00.
Yeah, yeah.
Good night.
- Tony! - Sh!
When you come, use the back door.
S¡.
Tony!
What does Tony stand for?
Anton.
Te adoro, Anton.
Te adoro, Maria.
# Good night, good night
# Sleep well
# And when you dream, dream of me
# Tonight
- Where are them Sharks? - Maybe they're too chicken to show.
We got time, A-rab. Riff and Ice ain't here yet.
- Come on. - He don't use a switchblade.
He don't even use an atomic ray gun.
- Who don't? - Captain Marvel.
- Gee, I love him. - So marry him!
I ain't never gonna get married. Too noisy!
You ain't never gonna get married. Too ugly!
Pow! Pow!
Cracko jacko! Down goes a teenage hoodlum.
Gee! Could a real zip gun make you do like that?
I know what it could make you do. You'd better wear diapers.
Go walk the streets like your sister.
Listen, jailbait! I licked you twice and I can do it again!
Come on, Anybodys. Knock it off.
- Riff's here. - All present and accounted for?
I'm proud of you. You done good at the dance.
- So where are they? - Unwind, Action.
- Any sign of Tony? - The Invisible Man?
What are the Sharks gonna ask for?
- Mercy. - Rubber hoses, maybe.
- Relax, little man. - You tell him, daddy-o.
- I'm ready. - Easy! Cool!
Cracko jacko!
Riff, in a tight spot you need every man you can get.
- No. - An American tragedy.
- Pow! - Oh, poo!
Ooblee-poo.
Look, when the Sharks come, you chicks cut out.