5.0 out of 5 based on 3 reviews. – Customer review on 19/01/2009

I just love this golden oldie. Its got everything action, humour, romance, a good story, hot male and female actors. The music is great and really draws you into the story as is the amazing dance scenes. Just has to be one for your collection especially if you're like me and like those old musicals. It isn't too long and is a good length unlike others which may drag on aftger a while. Highly recommended.

5.0 out of 5 based on 3 reviews. – Customer review on 14/01/2007

Adam could hardly believe it how his little wife tamed his backwoods brothers... He suggests to the wild and grieving 'Romeos,' reduced to what he can only describe as "a bunch of mamma's boys," forget gentle methods of love, and kidnap the unwilling gals they want, following the actions of the Roman with the Sabine women...

Howard Keel is at his commanding best... He develops an unorthodox solution to his brothers loneliness, much to the chagrin of the town fathers and their romantic rivals... With a voice singularly warm and precise, he rises magnificently to the occasion, singing a firmness 'Bless Your Beautiful Hide,' while he appraises the qualities of womanhood in general...

In her probably best screen performance, Jane Powell had the required amount of grit and spunk that was needed to lay the woman who could tame seven backwoodsmen... She sets about to refine her unkempt brothers-in-law giving them the manners and habits they need to court and to win their own sweethearts... Her clear, high, spring-water voice is just right for the songs, seemingly meant to be heard in the open with the mountains and meadows to echo it...

Unquestionably, the highlight of the motion picture is justly the 'Barn-raising' sequence... It begins as a 'challenge' dance--a truly breathtaking display of acrobatic leaps and ballet steps, in which the brothers compete for the girls with the more 'refined' men of the town, and it ends inevitably in a noisy, undignified fight as the men actually try to raise the four sides of the wooden barn...

The collective presence of the six brothers is simply dynamic... All the players move rhythmically with grace and ease... Russ Tamblyn jumps both forward and backward over an ax held in his hands... Stanley Donen again displays his visual originality and creates a new style of musical, irresistible with its vitality and freshness, lovely to look at and hear...

5.0 out of 5 based on 3 reviews. – Customer review on 28/09/2006

This is a classic for me. I just love this golden oldie. Its got everything action, humour, romance, a good story, hot male and female actors. The music is great and really draws you into the story as is the amazing dance scenes. Just has to be one for your collection especially if you're like me and like those old musicals. It isn't too long and is a good length unlike others which may drag on aftger a while. Highly recommended.