Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

In 1850 in the Oregon Territory, provincial farmer Adam Pontipee goes to town to trade supplies and find a wife. When he meets strong, hardworking Milly, who works in a bar, he proposes to her. Milly falls for Adam, they marry, and she expects that they will have their own little nest for two. But when they return to Adam's remote farm, she learns that his cabin is bursting with his six younger brothers, all unsophisticated and rude. Milly educates the brothers, teaching them hygiene, good manners, and how to win somebody's heart. At the annual town picnic, Milly, Adam, and his six brothers go to the party and each brother falls in love with a girl--then must return to the loneliness of their farm. That winter, Adam reads Plutarch and tells his brothers about "The Rape of the Sabine Women", in which the Roman men abducted wives for themselves from the Sabine families. He travels with his brothers to the town and they kidnap their beloved girls. When they cross a gorge, they provoke a snow avalanche and block the narrow passage. However, Milly keeps the girls in the house and sends Adam and his brothers to the barn. As they await the Spring, when the passage will be open again, many things happen on the farm with Milly, Adam, his brothers, and their "brides".