Seven brides for seven brothers [DVD] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Loew's Incorporated ; producer, Jack Cummings ; screenplay by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley ; directed by Stanley Donen.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954. Based on the story "The sobbin' women" by Stephen Vincent Benet. Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Marc Platt, Matt Mattox, Jacques d'Amboise, Julie Newmeyer.
Contents:
Disc 1: Feature (Cinescope original version) -- Optional audio feature commentary by Stanley Donen -- Stanley Donen trailer gallery ; Disc 2: Feature (Rarely seen alternate widescreen 1.77:1 flat aspect version) -- Sobbin' women: the making of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers [featurette, ca. 42 min.] -- Newsreel from the 1954 Radio City Music Hall Premiere -- Newsreel celebrating the 30th anniversary of Metro Goldwyn Mayer -- Vintage short subject: MGM Jubilee Overture.
Summary:
Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will create the solution to his brothers' loneliness - kidnap the women they want!.
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