Seven brides for seven brothers

The action takes place in the era of development of the Wild West. Orphan Millie, a young girl, works in a roadside tavern. Once, the red-bearded Adam Pontipay, the owner of the farm somewhere on the slope, descends from the mountains to a neighboring town. He came shopping and at the same time wanted to find his wife. Residents of the city laugh at him, saying that not a single normal girl wants to follow him into such a wilderness. Nevertheless, with Millie they immediately find a common language, he marries her and takes with him.

Arriving at a farm in a mountain valley, Millie realizes that Adam married her for the most part because he needed a mistress for an empty and untidy house where he lives and 6 more of his younger, throaty and noisy brothers. The fragile girl quickly puts things in order and shows who is now the boss in the house. Seven brothers, including her husband, begin to walk along the string. Millie and Adam realize that they truly love each other.

Thanks to Millie's pokes and instructions, her six single brother-in-laws already look almost like gentlemen. Milli descends with them to their hometown. There, young men get acquainted with several young girls, fascinated by their courteous manners and fiery red hair. However, the girls have boyfriends from among the city guys who come into confrontation with visitors. Some time later, the yearned brothers visited the city at night and kidnapped the young ladies who liked them. The townspeople set off in pursuit, but winter is on the street, and an avalanche that has descended will seal the pass for several months.

Millie, learning what the guys have done, takes the abducted girls (many of whom are her friends) in the house. And the brothers are driven out to sleep in the barn, where they will live all winter. During a long winter, a real tender feeling flares up between the girls and the kidnappers. In addition, Milli often reads them from an ancient story about the abduction of the Sabine women, who stood between their fathers and brothers and saved their abducting husbands from reprisal.
With the advent of spring, access to the mountains opens. All residents of the city with guns are sent to the farm, being ready to shoot their red brothers. But suddenly from above you hear the voice of a baby recently born to Millie and Adam. “Whose child is this?” Asks one of the city fathers. All the girls look at each other and answer in chorus: “Mine!” The six brothers are not hanged, and at gunpoint they rush to the girls. Now all 7 brothers are married.

• Jane Powell - Millie
• Howard Keel - Adam
• Ruth Lee - Ruth
• Russ Tamblyn - Gideon
• Anna C. Nilsson - Mrs. Elcott (uncredited)

Four of the actors who played the younger brothers are dancers, the other two are the gymnastics champion (Gideon) and a former baseball player (Benjamin). Dancers played all the brides: among them Julie Newmar (“Dorkas”) is especially famous.

Music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul, lyrics by Johnny Mercer :

1. Barn dance
2. Barn-raising
3. Kidnapped and chase
4. Bless Your Beautiful Hide - Adam's song
5. Wonderful, Wonderful Day - Millie song
6. When you're in love
7. Goin 'courtin'
8. House-Raising Dance
9. Lonesome polecat
10. Sobbin 'women
11. June Bride
12. Spring, Spring, Spring