Academy Awards, USA 1955
| Winner Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Adolph Deutsch Saul Chaplin |
| Nominee Oscar | Best Picture Jack Cummings |
| Best Writing, Screenplay Albert Hackett Frances Goodrich Dorothy Kingsley | |
| Best Cinematography, Color George J. Folsey | |
| Best Film Editing Ralph E. Winters |
MGM
Directed by Stanley Donen
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Warner Archive Collection)
Howard Keel, a mountain man in pioneer days Oregon, goes to town looking for supplies, and a wife. He finds Jane Powell slaving in a restaurant and she agrees to marry him within minutes of meeting. Up at his log cabin, she finds his six brothers waiting. They seem incapable of feeding themselves or even keeping the cabin or themselves clean. Realizing she has become a hired housekeeper, she kicks Keel outside their bedroom window into a tree on their wedding night. They eventually reconcile. Later that winter, Keel convinces his brothers to go to town and kidnap the six girls they danced with at an earlier barn raising. Their relatives don't take too kindly to that action, but are cut off by an avalanche and have to wait to spring to rescue them. That gives the boys plenty of time to convince the girls they aren't so bad after all. I know this is supposed to be a musical and not really reflective of real life, but this is perhaps the most mysoginistic mainstream Hollywood film ever made. Jawdroppingly so.
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