Finian's Rainbow G
Fred Astaire headlines an all-star cast in the big-screen version of one of the greatest musicals ever to come from the Broadway stage.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.40:1
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 3, 2016
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Fred Astaire, Petula Clark & Tommy Steele | |
Performer: | Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Hancock, Al Freeman, Jr. & Dolph Sweet | |
Directed by | Francis Ford Coppola | |
Edited by | Melvin Shapiro | |
Screenplay by | E.Y. Harburg & Fred Saidy | |
Produced by | Joseph Landon | |
Director of Photography: | Philip H. Lathrop |
Entertainment Reviews:
An allegory of the end of the studio system, couched in archaic-modern mementos
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CinePassion
A light, pastoral fantasy with civil rights angles, underscored by comedy values.
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Variety
Rating: 2/5 --
An inauspicious early Coppola film of a muscial that was already dated by the time the cameras rolled.
Nitrate Online
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.
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Film4
Francis Ford Coppola, whose previous film was the bouncing You're a Big Boy Now, again directs like a bulldozer with a sense of humour.
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The Spectator
An underrated musical.
Time Out
Rating: 4/4 --
A marvelous evening right up to its last shot of Astaire walking away down a country road.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
Fred Astaire stars as Irishman Finian McLonergan, who steals a pot of gold from the leprechaun Og (Tommy Steele) and, with his daughter Sharon (Petula Clark), brings it to Rainbow Valley in the fictional southern state of Missitucky. Sharecropper Woody Mahoney (Don Francks) and the rest of the community of Rainbow Valley are fighting to keep their land and tobacco crop away from the creedy, racist hands of Senator Billboard Rawkins (Keenan Wynn) and his assistant, Buzz Collins (Ronald Colby). Og's magical pot of gold causes more trouble than good when Sharon's wish that the senator would know what it's like to be black comes true. The rest of the pot's wishes are quickly used up trying to undo the trouble.
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- Sales Rank: 5,892
- UPC: 888574407001
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