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    Finian’s Rainbow (1968)

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    Although it ran for 725 performances on Broadway, it’s tempting to suggest that the reason this satirical musical took 21 years to make it to the screen was because studio executives recognised that its magic works best on the stage.

    Even old hands would have struggled to balance the whimsical story of a leprechaun searching for his stolen gold with sharp insights into racism and greed.

    Directing his first film for a major studio, Francis Ford Coppola fumbles both fantasy and sermon.

    However, Fred Astaire, in one of his last starring roles, is as charmingly watchable as ever as Finian McLonergan, who arrives in America from Ireland with a crock of gold, intending to bury it near Fort Knox in the hope that it will multiply in value.

    But complications arise through his daughter Sharon’s adventures and the arrival of a leprechaun who wants the gold back.

    Finian McLonergan
    Fred Astaire
    Sharon McLonergan
    Petula Clark
    Og
    Tommy Steele
    Woody
    Don Francks
    Susan the Silent
    Barbara Hancock
    Judge Billboard Rawkins
    Keenan Wynn
    Howard
    Al Freeman Jr
    Sharecropper
    Brenda Arnau
    Henry
    Louis Silas
    Sheriff
    Dolph Sweet
    District Attorney
    Wright King

    Director
    Francis Ford Coppola

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