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I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Blistering performances.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The caliber of dancing will blow your boots off!Howard Keel and Jane Powell headline this movie about a family of seven brothers living deep in the Oregon territory that decide they want to marry. Calamity ensues with lots of singing and dancing!This is one of the great Hollywood movie treasures not to be missed!

Songs: "When You're In Love" (sung by Keel, Powell), "Spring, Spring, Spring" (sung by Powell, Brothers, Brides), "Sobbin' Women" (sung by Keel, Brothers), "Bless Your Beautiful Hide" (sung by Keel), "Goin' Courtin'" "Wonderful, Wonderful Day" (both sung by Powell), "June Bride" (sung by Gibson, Brides), "Lonesome Polecat Lament" (sung and danced by Brothers).Copyright 15 June 1954 by Loew's Inc. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. New York opening at the Radio City Music Hall: 22 June 1954. U.S. release: August 1954. U.K. release: December 1954. Australian release: 27 September 1954. Sydney opening at the St James. 9,180 feet. 102 minutes.SYNOPSIS: For Milly (Jane Powell) it's love at first sight. So when big Adam Pontipee (Howard Keel) up and asks her to marry him, she can only sigh yes. Naturally, it's a shock when she learns that her husband has six giant brothers, the rarin'est, fightin'est men in the Oregon backwoods. But it's a bigger shock when she learns that she is to keep house and cook for all of them. Deciding the only way out of her predicament is to marry off the boys, Milly cleans them up and teaches 'em the rudiments of courtin'. When the barn raisin' is held, it's the Pontipees who have the gals a'twitter. The town boys don't take to this shift in affection and provoke a bloody brawl. Victorious but bowed, the Pontipee boys return home without their ladies. Adam hits upon the solution. In one of Milly's books he read about the ancient Romans abducting the Sabine women.NOTES: Prestigious Hollywood award to Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. Also nominated for Best Picture, losing to "On the Waterfront"; Best Screenplay, won by George Seaton for "The Country Girl"; color Cinematography, won by Milton Krasner for "3 Coins in the Fountain"; Film Editing, won by Gene Milford for "On the Waterfront".With a domestic rental gross of $5.6 million, the film made 9th spot on the Top Ten American Box-office Champions for 1954. The film took 14th position in Australia. In the U.K. it did even better, coming in 5th for 1955, a fair way behind "The Dam Busters", "White Christmas" and "Doctor at Sea" but pretty close to number 4, "The Colditz Story".COMMENT: Many picturegoers regard this one as the ultimate in CinemaScope musicals. Certainly the barn-raising dance is one of the most vigorously arresting ever put on celluloid. But the movie meanders on after this great show-stopper for quite some time. Despite the efforts of the players, one has the feeling of anti- climax.Until recently, another problem was that there was no way you could fit "Seven Brides (let alone Seven Brothers") on to a standard TV screen. In fact the whole idea of having seven of each instead of three, was to take advantage of the elongated dimensions of CinemaScope. But we now have a superb DVD from Warner Home Video which is actually far superior to the original theatrical 35mm release print. I didn't enjoy seeing the movie on its first release because the sound level was so deafening. Here's my original review:COMMENT: Distressingly noisy musical. Only one or two of the songs are in any way ear-catching, the others are just loud, as if the makers decided to bury their mediocrity under an impenetrable din. The color is disgracefully patchy, the film editing sloppy, special effects are poorly executed and backgrounds are obviously phony. Donen's direction is surprisingly indifferent.

Howard Keel, he of the great baritone, and his Neanderthal brothers, have the joy of being waited on and looked after by a beautiful woman. I really felt sorry for her because at some point I realized that for the rest of her life she was going to have to serve this guy. I know. It's her decision, of course, but there is an empty feeling in my soul. Nevertheless, this is a rollicking film with great dancing and songs that typify the setting. It is colorful and non stop in its joyfulness. There is some fun conflict as the clueless ply their trades. We never stop to ask how such dumb guys could be such great dancers. In musicals, especially the really light hearted ones, we put aside our concerns about such things and watch the spectacle. I think this is the first movie I watch when I ordered cable for the first time.

Howard Keel plays Adam Pontipee, he goes out to get him a wife, He gets one, it is so refreshing to see a perfect musical centered around men behaving like men, dancing fighting and at the end steal 6 girls to life with his brothers in the mountains. Their fathers and brothers chase the young men but Adam and his Brs organized an avalanche to close of the valley for the winter. When spring arrived, the girls did not want to go back and instead were forced to get married to the Brs with guns held by the girl's Fathers. Very Hilarious, really worth seeing it. I rate it 8/10. At the end they lived happily ever after. If you have not seen this version, go see it, it is truly worth watching.