Finian's Rainbow

Finian's Rainbow
by Francis Ford Coppola

Finian's Rainbow
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Actor: Don Francks, Fred Astaire, Keenan Wynn, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 145 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Finian's Rainbow

Movie Review: Pure Gold
Summary: 5 Stars

This DVD was fun to watch. Fred Astaire does some fun dancing and
Petula Clark sings her blarney stone off.
Tommy Steele, steals the movie though. He is a crack up to watch.
Keenan Wynn waiting for his Bromo Seltzer had me rollin.

Summary of Finian's Rainbow

Musical morality tale about prejudice directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Fred Astaire. Based on a Broadway show from the late 40's. Astaire plays an Irishman who's moved to a small southern town. His plan is to bury a leprechaun's pot of gold that he's brought with him - so that it will grow faster. But his plans go awry when his daughter makes the wrong wish while Astaire stands over the magical pot.Running Time: 145 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?MUSICALS/MUSICALS UPC:?085391120827
A funny thing happened to Finian's Rainbow in between its debut as a Broadway musical in 1947 and its appearance as a film in 1968. After 21 years, its theme of racial tension in the American South was no longer cutting edge, and the fact that its heroes are a group of sharecroppers called the Rainbow Valley Tobacco Cooperative dates it even further. Add a number of subplots and the heavy hand of a 29-year-old Francis Ford Coppola directing his first and only musical, and the two-and-a-half-hour running time feels bloated. Hermes Pan (best known for the classic Astaire-Rogers movies) is credited with choreographing the overbusy musical numbers, but he was reportedly overruled by Coppola at every turn. Still, there is a lot to enjoy in this movie, most notably Fred Astaire in his last lead role in a musical. Fred plays Finian McLonergan, an Irishman who has traveled to America in hopes of planting a pilfered pot of gold near Fort Knox and watching it grow. Even at 69, Fred shows he is still capable of a sprightly step and warbling "Look to the Rainbow." Another plus is the casting of '60s pop icon Petula Clark as his daughter, as she sings with an unaffected loveliness. Finally, the score by Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg includes two of the best Broadway songs ever written--"Old Devil Moon" and "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?"--as well as the comic ditty "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love." --David Horiuchi

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