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Nearly 20 years after it opened on Broadway, the E.Y. Harburg/Fred Saidy musical Finian's Rainbow was committed to film. Set in the mythical southern state of Missitucky, the story involves the whimsical Irishman Finian (Fred Astaire) and his daughter Sharon (Petula Clark) arriving in the community carrying a crock of gold, which they've stolen in the Auld Sod from Ogg the Leprechaun (Tommy Steele). Finian believes that if he buries the crock on American soil, it will grow into an even larger
G, 2 hr. 21 min.
Oct 9, 1968 Wide
Mar 15, 2005
Warner Home Video
All Critics (13) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (6) | DVD (6)
A light, pastoral fantasy with civil rights angles, underscored by comedy values.
Joyless.
A marvelous evening right up to its last shot of Astaire walking away down a country road.
It's Fred Astaire's last musical and a sorry farewell.
Not as bad as legend has it, but Francis Ford Coppola's film of Finian's Rainbow can hardly be called good
An allegory of the end of the studio system, couched in archaic-modern mementos
One of many musical stinkers made during a decade infamous for them.
An underrated musical.
An inauspicious early Coppola film of a muscial that was already dated by the time the cameras rolled.
Astaire gives a dignified performance as the Irish immigrant with the leprechaun's pot of gold, Clarke is good as his feisty daughter, and the songs are hugely enjoyable.
Some great songs but it drags on forever.
September 27, 2007
Super Reviewer
This musical borders on obnoxious, and Francis Ford Coppola's direction is dreadful. From what I had read from what I looked up was that he was over his head and that director should have been someone with musical experience, and I agree. Fred Astaire overacts way too much, but Petula Clark is rather delightful. The
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