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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:14
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: In the Oregon Territory, mountain man Adam Pontipee (Howard Keel, acting and singing with gusto) comes to town to sell his crops and woo a woman to be his wife, succeeding with spirited Milly (Jane... In the Oregon Territory, mountain man Adam Pontipee (Howard Keel, acting and singing with gusto) comes to town to sell his crops and woo a woman to be his wife, succeeding with spirited Milly (Jane Powell), who is tired of feeding and waiting on so many men at the local inn. Her dreams of keeping house for just one man are shattered when she discovers that Adam shares his pigsty cabin with six brawling brothers. Milly's good cooking and stubborn nature whip the young men into shape and inspire them to seek women of their own. But after a disastrous barn raising during which the brothers snare the attention of the town girls only to be taunted into fighting with the town men, Adam suggests his brothers forget gentle methods of love and follow the actions of the Roman with the Sabine ("Sobbin'") women. The kidnapping of their six sweethearts spurs Milly to throw the men out of the house, but enforced proximity caused by winter and the brothers' good intentions just might help love bloom again. [More]
Starring: Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn
Starring: Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Howard Petrie, Virginia Gibson, Ian Wolfe, Marc Platt
Director: Stanley Donen
Director: Stanley Donen
Producer: Jack Cummings
Screenwriter: Albert Hackett
Composer: Adolph Deutsch
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Reviews for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Written directly for ther screen, MGM's popular musical benefits immensely from Stanley Donen's deft direction, Michael Kidd's dynamic choreography, and Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin's Oscar-winning score.
The songs are knowingly corny and catchy as hell, the dancing is (quite rightly) renowned, the story is ludicrously sexist, and the whole film is just exceedingly watchable.
...a big, brawling, rollicking movie that, old-fashioned or not, helped to open up the movie musical to widescreen singing and dancing.
Latest News for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
December 26, 2007:
Choreographer Michael Kidd: 1919-2007
Choreographer Michael Kidd -- responsible for some of the best-known dance sequences in film and stage -- succumbed Sunday to cancer at the age of 92. More...
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