Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) - Theatrical Trailer - © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

Film: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.


Starring: Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Jeff Richards, Matt Mattox, Marc Platt, Jacques d'Amboise, Tommy Rall, Russ Tamblyn, Julie Newmar, Ruta Lee, Norma Doggett, Virginia Gibson, Betty Carr, Nancy Kilgas, Ian Wolfe, Marjorie Wood, Russell Simpson and Howard Petrie.


Directed by: Stanley Donen.


Story written by: Stephen Vincent Benét.


Screenplay & Dialogues written by: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley.


Distributed by: © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.


Theatrical Release Date: July 22, 1954 (USA)


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Synopsis!
"Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" is a musical film released in 1954. It was directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The script (by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley) is based on the short story The Sobbin' Women, by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the Ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women. The film was a 1954 Oscar nominee for Best Picture.
The film is particularly known for the unusual choreography by Michael Kidd, which makes dance numbers out of such mundane frontier pursuits as chopping wood and (most famously) raising a barn.

Plot!
The film's story is about a backwoodsman named Adam Pontipee and his new bride Milly, who marries him after knowing him for only a few hours. On returning with him to his cabin in the mountains, Milly is surprised to learn that Adam is one of seven lumberjack brothers living in the same cabin. The brothers have been named alphabetically from the Bible: Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank (short for Frankincense, the Bible supposedly having no names beginning with F- due to Hebrew using "Ph" instead, as in Phineas -- however, Felix, Festus and Fortunatus are all mentioned in the Bible), and Gideon. All of the brothers have red hair and are well over six feet tall, except Gideon, who is younger and shorter than his brothers.

Milly teaches Adam's rowdy, ill-behaved younger brothers manners and social mores, including how to dance. At first, the brothers have a hard time changing from their "mountain man" ways, but eventually they come to see that the only way they will get a girl of their own is if they do things Milly's way. They are able to test their new manners at a barn-raising, where they meet six girls they like -- Dorcas, Ruth, Martha, Liza, Sarah and Alice -- and, fortunately, the girls like the brothers too. However, the girls already have suitors who jealously taunt the brothers into fighting during the barn-raising, and, although the brothers do not start the fight, they are banished from the town by the townspeople because of it.

Winter arrives, and the six younger brothers mope for their girls. Adam reads his brothers the story of "Sobbin' Women" (a pun on the Sabine Women) and tells them that they should stop moping around and go get their girls (see bride kidnapping). The brothers do so, and then cause an avalanche so that they can't be followed by the townspeople. The girls are upset at being kidnapped, and Milly is furious at Adam. She consigns the brothers to the barn while the girls are living in the house. Adam, somewhat put out by Milly's reaction, leaves for the family's cabin to live out the winter by himself.

Months pass, and eventually it is spring. The girls have now fallen in love with the brothers, who are now allowed to court the girls. Milly gives birth to a daughter, Hannah (picking up the Biblical-alphabetical pattern). Gideon rides to the cabin to inform Adam about his daughter's arrival and asks Adam to come home, but Adam refuses to do so, saying that he would return home when the pass was open once more to traffic.

Adam, who has had time to think about his baby daughter, returns home in the spring. As a newly responsible father, he has become aware of how worried the townspeople would be about what has happened to the girls. Adam intends that the girls be taken back to their homes in the town by his brothers, but his brothers don't want to do so. The girls don't want to return to their homes, either — they all want to stay at the farm with their new suitors. When Milly discovers that the girls are not in the house, she mentions this to Adam, and he tells his brothers to go after the girls and bring them back.

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[pixiegurl88]

aww! This is the first musical I can remember watching when I was about...five XD Frank and Gideon were my favourites *sigh* Tommy Rall and Russ Tamblyn XD FTW

[stirfry110]

im 17, and i imitate the barn dance with my sister. i love this movie it has always been my favourite. thank you mum and dad for brainwashing me into loving the old musicals :)

[Prielle1]

Oh Caleb... be my husband Why can't I be Ruth?

[polaroidsky]

Jane Austen quivers in her grave.

[x0chrystinax0]

im 17, have watched thi smovie about twice a day everyday for a month. I'll just turn it on as im getting ready for the day or chillin my my room. I cant get enough!

oh, and im completly in love with Frank and Ben....

[Daniel4646]

@mana1761992

No, I've since found out myself. It was Gunsmoke's ep "The Wiving". The whole ep is even here on YouTube - have already watched it!

Thanks anyway!

[mana1761992]

@Daniel4646 thats that movie.. :DD they kidnaped girls in this movie.. :D

[bobgrantsbus]

Wonderful dances scenes and songs make this one of the best musicals that Hollywood ever produced.

[Daniel4646]

@stirfry110 I can darkly remember some Western (I can't remember whether it was a TV series ep or a film) in which a few brothers kidnap a bunch of girls and their old 'nanny' (so to speak), truss them up and gag them and deposit them in their wagon clad in their nighties. One of the girls later stings one of the brothers' horses with a hair pin.

Can anybody tell me if that's the one, and if not, the true title of the piece?