Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). Photofest.
(Stanley Donen, US 1954, 102 min., 35mm)
Winter Romance. One of the greatest musicals from Hollywood’s Golden Age, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers relates the story of seven rough and brawny brothers living on an Oregon ranch in the 1850s. When the oldest comes home with a bride who tries to clean up and civilize the brothers, the younger six decide that they want to get married as well. Loosely based on the American short story “The Sobbin’ Women” by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was, in turn, derived from the ancient Roman myth of the Kidnapping of the Sabine Women, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers features sequences of astonishing choreography and a classically happy ending.
Also showing: Tuesday, February 19