Howard Keel and Jane Powell are rapturous newlyweds who tame his six rowdy bachelor brothers in the wild Oregon backwoods in this Best Score Academy Award(R)-winning song-and-dance-filled comedy.Well, bless my beautiful hide! Director Stanley Donen invests this rollicking musical with a hearty exuberance. Howard Keel, with his big-as-all-outdoors baritone, stars as a bold “mountain man” living in the Oregon woods who brings home a bride (plucky songbird soprano Jane Powell) to his six slovenly brothers. Taming the rambunctious brood, Jane proceeds to make gentlemen of them so they can woo sweethearts of their own. But old habits die hard: their flirting gives way to fighting in the film’s celebrated barn-raising scene, a lively acrobatic dance number exuberantly choreographed by Michael Kidd. Big brother chimes in with his own brand of advice–an old-fashioned kidnapping! Donen manages to get away with such a politically incorrect plot by investing the boys with a innocent sweetness, most notably the youngest brother played with genial earnestness by Rusty (Russ) Tamblyn (pre-West Side Story). This modest production became a huge hit and remains one of MGM’s best-loved musical comedies, an energetic, high-kicking classic. –Sean Axmaker
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March 29, 2008
#1
I’d heard great things about this musical and was supremely disappointed upon watching it. The story is insipid, the acting lame, the music forgettable at best. There’s one great dance sequence at the barn raising (which is why it gets one star rather than none or negative stars). Every time one of the actors broke into song, we laughed derisively as it’s worked so poorly into the story line and the singing is so insipid. If every copy of this film vanished off the face of the earth, it would be doing humankind a favor.
March 29, 2008
#2
This film is terrible. All of the songs are horribly written and sung, and the film’s dancing scenes are horribly choreographed (except for the scene at the barn raising). And the acting, let’s just not go there! Trust me on this one. SKIP IT! Grade: F
March 29, 2008
#3
This company does not deliver its product and it does not answer its emails. DO NOT DEAL WITH THEM. They took my money; they will take yours.
March 29, 2008
#4
The seven “brides” are actually seven women from the nearby vilage who are kidnapped from their homes and held against their will through the winter by the seven brothers. By the time the snow melts and their families are able to come rescue them they’ve all fallen in love with their kidnappers(!!!) and pretend to be pregnant so their parents will consent to them marrying the men who carried them off by force.
When I first saw this as a kid I was shocked at just how screwed up this plot line is and the intervening years haven’t made it any less terrible.
March 29, 2008
#5
If you are supplying DVD’s to addresses in Europe you should make sure that they are correctly “Regionaly coded”
The copy you sent is coded” 1 ” which I presume is for America but unplayable on the majority of players in Europe
As the purchase was for a Christmass present,it was a great disappointment when the recipient was unable to watch it.
Unable to review your product as it is not possible to look at it.
Not sure if I will use Amazon again, it was a very embarassing experience.