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Title:

Seven brides for seven brothers [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; producer, Jack Cummings ; writers, Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley ; directed by Stanley Donen.

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Edition:

Two-disc special edition, 50th-Anniversary edition, Widescreen version, [DVD]

Publisher, Date:

[California] : Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., [2004]

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2004]

Copyright:

Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

region 1

Motion pictures

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!

Audience Note:

MPAA rating G.

System details:

DVD ; Dolby Surround (disc 1) ; Mono (disc 2).

Cast:

Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Marc Platt, Matt Mattox, Jacques d'Amboise, Julie Newmeyer.

Credits:

Director of photography, George Folsey ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary ; editor, Ralph E. Winters ; music, Gene de Paul ; costume designer, Walter Plunkett ; choreographer, Michael Kidd ; special effects, A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe.

Language:

English dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Subjects:

Benet, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943 -- Film adaptations.

Brides -- Drama.

Brothers -- Drama.

Kidnapping -- Drama.

Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon -- Drama.

Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Fiction films.

Musical films.

Film adaptations.

Romantic comedy films.

Other Author:

Donen, Stanley, director.

Hackett, Albert, screenwriter.

Goodrich, Frances, screenwriter.

Kingsley, Dorothy, screenwriter.

Powell, Jane, 1929-2021 actor.

Keel, Howard, 1919-2004, actor.

Richards, Jeff, 1922-1989, actor.

Tamblyn, Russ, actor.

Rall, Tommy, actor.

Folsey, George J., 1898-1988, director of photography.

De Paul, Gene, composer (expression)

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. Sobbin' women.

Warner Home Video (Firm), distributor.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production company.

Turner Entertainment Co., publisher.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, publisher.

Other title:

7 brides for 7 brothers.

Other Title:

Container of (work): Seven brides for seven brothers (Motion picture)

Container of (expression): Seven brides for seven brothers (Motion picture). French.

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954.

Based on the story "The sobbin' women" by Stephen Vincent Benet.

Special features: commentary by director Stanley Donen ; Donen Musicals trailer gallery ; Behind the scenes documentary "Sobbin Women: the making of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" hosted by Howard Keel and updated with new interviews of Jane Powell and Jacques D'Amboise ; New York premiere and MGM 30th Anniversary Celebration Newsreel ; Vintage short MGM Jubilee Overture.

All new digital transfer (16x9 2.55).

Soundtrack newly remastered for Dolby Digital 5.1.

Rarely screened alternate widescreen version in flat (1.77) aspect ratio (16x9).

Disc 1: cinemascope original ; Disc 2: alternate filming.

Title from disc surface.

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, approximately 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.

ISBN:

0790789957

9780790789958

Publisher or Distributor Number:

65926

Other Number:

56220853

Control Number:

1566379

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