I don't remember why or how this ended up on the list but it did and i decided to watch it yesterday.
If you haven't seen this film then you aren't really missing much. A man called Adam has six brothers and he goes in to town to find himself a wife. He doesn't really want a wife, he wants a cook but anyway, he marries this woman and takes her back to his family home where his brothers also still live.
She teaches them etiquette and various things like that and they all end up getting married.
This film has a fairly terrible story line and is one of the worst musicals i have seen. The dance sequences are way to long, as is some of the singing. You can tell that a film is bad when all it's dances are too long and unnecessary.
The story isn't particularly gripping and there are times when you are sitting there asking yourself what the point is in this particular scene or even a series of scenes.
The trick to musicals is to make the dancing related to what's going on. So in the sound of music, she is taking the out in Vienna which they don't do very much if at all. The dance scene shows their journey in Vienna and has an entertaining song to go with it. In this film the dances often don't have any words with it so you need the dancing to be spectacular (which it possibly may have been for that period in time) and to be reasonably short.
I have seen worse films and worse dances and i would be wrong to say that this is a aweful film, it's just not up there with the other musicals.
Until next time...
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