History Film / SevenBridesForSevenBrothers

* AdaptationDyeJob: The Pontipees in the original short story are all described as scruffy and dark-haired in comparison to the townspeople. In contrast, the film gives the boys have red-brown hair and are clean-shaven while the townsmen have dark hair and [[BeardOfEvil mustaches]].

Set on [[TheWildWest the nineteenth-century American frontier]], the movie focuses on Adam Pontipee and his new bride Milly. 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.

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

** And [[spoiler: Milly and Adam's daughter is named Hannah.]]

-->'''Adam:''' [leaving the bedroom, where his brothers are waiting in the hallway] [[BlatantLies She's thirsty! She wants a drink of water!]]

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Having a daughter of his own is what makes Adam realize the way he's been treating women is wrong.

* TheCharmer: Adam. He's able to woo Milly with just the ''idea'' of courting her.

* FlippingTheTable: Done by Milly when she sees the men's atrocious table manners.

* MarriageBeforeRomance: Adam convinces a townswoman named Milly to marry him, promising an idyllic 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.
* MarriageOfConvenience: Milly is certainly attracted to Adam and swept off her feet, but she primarily marries him so she doesn't have to keep working at an inn and only take care of 'just one man'. Unfortunately for her, Adam's primary reason for hiring a wife is so there's someone to take care of ''several'' men.
* NoSocialSkills: The first time the brothers see a girl, they try to start a conversation by offering them tobacco to chew. Even after another man steps in and accuses them of insulting a lady, the brothers are still clueless.
* NotSoDifferent: The girls may ''look'' genteel and retiring, but they're more than willing to pull pranks on the brothers, and at one point they get into a physical brawl with each other, exactly like the one the brothers got into earlier in the film.

* ScreenToStageAdaptation
* SettingUpdate: As {{Lampshaded}} in the film itself, the story is more-or-less [[Literature/ParallelLives Plutarch's account of the Rape of the Sabine Women]] [-IN THE WILD WEST! AS A MUSICAL COMEDY!-] (Note that the "rape" in "Rape of the Sabine Women" refers only to the act of abduction. When it was given that name in English, the word "rape" had not yet acquired its modern "forced intercourse" meaning. It seems more than likely that the Sabine women would have been raped in the modern sense afterwards, but Roman accounts naturally deny this.)

* 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 (and that the girls were quite happy to take revenge on the brothers, who could only grumble and take it). The brothers also, after realizing what [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone they had done]], do ''try'' to get the girls to agree to go back home when spring arrives.

* EveryoneMustBePaired: All six of them! After one of the seven brothers gets married, all the other six decide they must each have a bride as well. Despite their [[AbductionIsLove dubious way of achieving that end]], the brothers get what they want and everyone is happy.
* EvilPlan: The six brothers consider giving AbductionIsLove a try. It doesn't exactly work as planned.

* PairTheSpares: All six of them!

* InnocentInnuendo: {{InUniverse}}. Adam accidentally breaking the bed when coming in through the window on his wedding night is interpreted by his brothers as DestructoNookie.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: All of Adam's brothers wait with knowing smiles while Adam goes up to consummate his relationship with Milly, and it is stated outright that if they knew Milly had [[LysistrataGambit turned him down]], they would make fun of him.

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

''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' is a 1954 [[TheWestern Western]] {{Musical}} film, [[ScreenToStageAdaptation later staged on Broadway in 1984]]. It was 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, itself a parodic takeoff on the Rape of the Sabine Women from Myth/ClassicalMythology.

''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' is a 1954 {{Musical}} film, [[ScreenToStageAdaptation later staged on Broadway in 1984]]. It was 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, itself a parodic takeoff on the Rape of the Sabine Women from Myth/ClassicalMythology.

* 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. The brothers also, after realizing what [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone they had done]], do ''try'' to get the girls to agree to go back home when spring arrives.

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

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

* [[ExiledToTheCouch Exiled To The Barn]]: Millie kicks the brothers out of the house when she realizes what they did, and gives their beds to the women.

* 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 even before Millie breaks out the brightly coloured shirts.
* FlippingTheTable: Done by Millie when she sees the men's atrocious table manners.

* [[SheCleansUpNicely He Cleans Up Nicely]]: Millie remarks how handsome her new brother-in-laws are when she makes them all bathe and shave.

* MarriageOfConvenience: Millie is certainly attracted to Adam and swept off her feet, but she primarily marries him so she doesn't have to keep working at an inn and only take care of 'just one man'. Unfortunately for her, Adam's primary reason for hiring a wife is so there's someone to take care of ''several'' men.

* OneHeadTaller: Adam and Millie in the movie.

* PluckyGirl: Millie. She's not afraid of hard work, ''or'' of telling Adam where to stick it.

* SilkHidingSteel: Millie embodies every ideal of femininity at the time: she's not afraid of working hard; she cooks, cleans, and sews for seven men, and yet turns a house of barbarians into a matriarchy through sheer force of personality.

* WeddingsForEveryone: [[spoiler: The brides bluff the townsfolk into allowing them to marry the brothers, since each claims Millie's baby is actually hers. Their families clearly don't want to take the risk.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Millie delivers a scathing one to all the brothers when they return home with their kidnapped "brides".

* HaveAGayOldTime

* TheWildWest

''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 [[Myth/ClassicalMythology The Rape Of The Sabine Women.]]

* SettingUpdate: As {{Lampshaded}} in the film itself, the story is more-or-less [[Literature/ParallelLives Plutarch's account of the Rape of the Sabine Women]] [-IN THE WILD WEST!-] [-AS A MUSICAL COMEDY!-] (Note that the "rape" in "Rape of the Sabine Women" refers only to the act of abduction. When it was given that name in English, the word "rape" has not yet acquired its modern "forced intercourse" meaning. It seems more than likely that the Sabine women would have been raped in the modern sense afterwards, but Roman accounts naturally deny this.)

* SettingUpdate: As {{Lampshaded}}, the story is more-or-less [[Literature/ParallelLives Plutarch's account of the Rape of the Sabine Women]] [-IN THE WILD WEST!-] [-AS A MUSICAL COMEDY!-] (Note that the "rape" in "Rape of the Sabine Women" refers only to the act of abduction. When it was given that name in English, the word "rape" has not yet acquired its modern "forced intercourse" meaning. It seems more than likely that the Sabine women would have been raped in the modern sense afterwards, but Roman accounts naturally deny this.)

* SettingUpdate: As {{Lampshaded}}, the story is more-or-less Plutarch's ''The Rape of the Sabine Women'' [-IN THE WILD WEST!-] [-AS A MUSICAL COMEDY!-] (Note that the "rape" in "Rape of the Sabine Women" refers only to the act of abduction. When it was given that name in English, the word "rape" has not yet acquired its modern "forced intercourse" meaning. It seems more than likely that the Sabine women would have been raped in the modern sense afterwards, but Roman accounts naturally deny this.)

* SettingUpdate: As {{Lampshaded}}, the story is more-or-less Plutarch's ''The Rape of the Sabine Women'' [-IN THE WILD WEST!-] [-AS A MUSICAL COMEDY!-]

* AdultFear: The girls are abducted in the middle of the night, quite often from their own homes -- Dorcas is kidnapped from her bedroom ''while she's still in her nightgown'' -- and carried off by a group of seemingly uncivilised woodsmen, to be trapped up in the mountains for at least seven months. The Pontipees' intentions are entirely honourable, but the townsfolk don't know that.

* AdultFear: The brides are abducted in the middle of the night, quite often from their own homes -- Dorcas is kidnapped from her bedroom ''while she's still in her nightgown'' -- and carried off by a group of seemingly uncivilised woodsmen, to be trapped up in the mountains for at least seven months. The Pontipees' intentions are entirely honourable, but the townsfolk don't know that.

* 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. The brothers also, after realizing what [[OhGodWhatIvedone they had done]], do ''try'' to get the girls to agree to go home when spring arrives.