History Film / SevenBridesForSevenBrothers

* StockholmSyndrome: An important part of the story arc, as the story of six brothers desperate for women going into the city and kidnapping several maidens in the middle of the night and taking them back to the ranch, completely isolated for six months, has very strong subtext of lust and rape even though none of them have ''any'' intention of raping ''anyone.'' Though, it's worth noting that the girls had already met the brothers previously and showed an interest in them, and thanks to Milly the brothers apparently had no direct contact with the girls until spring.

* AbductionIsLove: Played with; the girls are very cool towards the brothers after their abduction at first, but by the end of the film they're fighting to stay with them instead of getting away from them. Not really a straight example though, as they were clearly attracted to eachother beforehand.

* AltarTheSpeed: Millie and Adam get married after knowing each other only a few hours.

* BarnRaising

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The brothers not only forgot to kidnap a preacher, they also didn't stop to consider that A) the girls probably won't want to marry a bunch of guys they barely know, ''especially'' after being kidnapped in the middle of the night, B) the girls' families and suitors are ''still'' going to come after them once the pass is open again, and C) (as Adam points out) the girls won't want to marry them if they fight the families when they come, especially if a father or brother gets hurt

* FieryRedHead: All seven Pontipee brothers; hardly surprising, as red hair runs in families. An interview on the DVD points out that this is a case of ColorCodedCharacters, as the production team needed to signal the brothers' difference from the townsmen.

* PluckyGirl: Millie
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming

* WeddingsForEveryone

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The brothers not only forgot to kidnap a preacher, they also didn't stop to consider that A) the girls probably won't want to marry a bunch of guys they barely know, ''especially'' after being kidnapped in the middle of the night, and B) the girls' families and suitors are ''still'' going to come after them once the pass is open again.

* StockholmSyndrome: An important part of the story arc, as the story of six brothers desperate for women going into the city and kidnapping several maidens in the middle of the night and taking them back to the ranch, completely isolated for six months, has very strong subtext of lust and rape even though none of them have ''any'' intention of raping ''anyone.'' Though, it's worth noting that the girls had already met the brothers previously, and showed an interest in them.
* ThatRemindsMeOfASong

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter

* AbductionIsLove: Played with; the girls are very cool towards the brothers after their abduction at first, but by the end of the film they're fighting to stay with them instead of getting away from them.

* BerserkButton: Frank is [[StealthPun incensed]] by people calling him by the long form of his name. Can you blame him?

* TheCastShowoff: Brothers C-F were played by professional dancers. All the brides were as well, which gave us [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faQHDd1KEwg "June Bride"]]. And Russ Tamblyn, playing Gideon, had training as a gymnast.

!!!Tropes used by this musical:

* AbductionIsLove

* BerserkButton: Frank is [[StealthPun incensed]] by people knowing the long form of his name.
* BetaCouple: Gideon and Alice.

* CoolBigSis: Millie becomes this to her brothers-in-law and later to the girls they kidnapped.

* EmbarrassingFirstName: The brothers' parents named them after Biblical characters going down through the alphabet. They hit a snag when they came to the letter F, so they named their son Frankincense. Let's say he's not exactly fond of it.

* EvilPlan: The six brothers consider giving AbductionIsLove a try.

* FieryRedHead: All seven Pontipee brothers. An interview on the DVD points out that this is a case of ColorCodedCharacters, as the production team needed to signal the brothers' difference from the townsmen.

* StockholmSyndrome: An important part of the story arc, as the story of six brothers desperate for women going into the city and kidnapping several maidens in the middle of the night and taking them back to the ranch, completely isolated for six months, has very strong subtext of lust and rape even though none of them have any intention of raping anyone. Though, it's worth noting that the girls had already met the brothers previously, and showed an interest in them.

''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' is a {{musical}}, based on a [[http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/benetsv-thirteen07-sobbinwomen/benetsv-thirteen07-sobbinwomen-00-h-dir/benetsv-thirteen07-sobbinwomen-00-h.html short story]] by Stephen Vincent Benet, that was made into a film in 1954 and staged on Broadway in 1984. The movie focuses on Adam Pontipee and his new bride Milly on the American frontier. Adam has six rowdy lumberjack brothers, who each are also looking for a wife. Milly tries to train them into being gentlemen, but they go against that and kidnap the women they are sweet on instead of properly courting. An avalanche traps the women with the men over the winter, and they warm up to each other. The musical was in part based off of [[ClassicalMythology The Rape Of The Sabine Women.]]

* CourtlyLove: Described in ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhgh3gsRCss Going Courting]]''
* DawsonCasting: Marc Platt, who plays Daniel Pontipee, brother #4 of 7, is six to nine years older than the actors playing brothers A-C.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Gideon is [[Film/WestSideStory the leader of the Jets]].
** One of the brides (Dorcas) is [[Series/BatMan Catwoman]]!

* MarriageBeforeRomance: Adam convinces a townswoman named Milly to marry him, promising an idealistic life in the woods. But when he gets her home she discovers that he failed to mention his six rowdy adult brothers who would also be living under the same roof. Despite her initial anger, she starts to fall in love with him, but their romance is derailed when he decides that since kidnapping one woman worked so well, they might as well head into town and grab themselves six more. Snowed in over winter, all of the girls warm to their captors and when spring arrives and their menfolk come to rescue them, they all manage to finagle shot-gun weddings instead.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The backdrops were clearly painted. In fact, during the song "Wonderful, Wonderful Day", a bird crashes into it.

* FieryRedHead: All seven Pontipee brothers.

* StockholmSyndrome: An important part of the story arc, as the story of six brothers desperate for women going into the city and kidnapping several maidens in the middle of the night and taking them back to the ranch, completely isolated for six months, has very strong subtext of lust and rape even though none of them have any intention of raping anyone.

* PlankGag: Frank is the victim of one of these during the barn-raising contest, except it was intention and was only (poorly) disguised as an accident.

* StockholmSyndrome: An important part of the story arc, as the story of six brothers desperate for women going into the city and kidnapping several maidens in the middle of the night and taking them back to the ranch, completely isolated for six months, has very strong subtext of lust and rape.

* TheKindnapper: All of the six brothers who are bachelors in the beginning. They kidnap the women with the intention of marrying them, but they do state that they want to "make them Sobbin' women smile" and they intend for the kidnappings to result in ''happy'' marriages.

* StockholmSyndrome