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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Plutarch's story of The Rape of the Sabinc Women, updated to make the best cinemusical since An American in Paris (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 23, 1954 | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Plutarch's story of The Rape of the Sabine Women, updated to make the best cine-musical since An American in Paris (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Plutarch's story of The Rape of the Sabine Women, updated to make the best cine-musical since An American in Paris (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...movie Rape, fairly mild compared to Plutarch's version, is based on a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. Accordingly, the deed is done in Oregon's backwoods rather than in Rome's front yard-and in truth it is not even done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...just breaks big brother's heart, anyway, to hear them carry on so. But what's to do? He grubs in Plutarch's Lives-one of the two books in the house, in which his wife has been teaching him to read-for a helpful hint, and finds the story of the Sabine women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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