Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Christian Century, Dec 14, 2004
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
An exuberant CinemaScope musical that badly needed the DVD format to recover some of its lost glory. Stanley Donen directed this 1954 adaptation of a Stephen Vincent Benet story about a family of brothers who go shopping for wives in the Old West. Michael Kidd choreographed the glorious, athletic dances, which include a barn-raising number and "Lonesome Polecat," a plaintive mock-ballet in the snow. The mostly wonderful songs that Howard Keel and Jane Powell sing are by Johnny Mercer and Gene de Paul.
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