Title

Finian's Rainbow

Cast

Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn, Don Francks

Director

Cinematographer

Editor

Language

English, French

Video

Tags

Family, Fantasy, Musical

Burton Lane, E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy's monster smash musical fantastique took its time to journey to Hollywood, but in the process drew a cinema icon back to the big screen and gave a future cinema titan his second stint behind the camera. Fred Astaire plays the titular Finian, a bona-fide Irish rogue who has made off with Og (Tommy Steele) the leprechaun's pot of gold. Arriving in the fine state of Missitucky with his daughter, Sharon (a lovely and luminous Petula Clark), Finian finds his dreams magically multiplying gold coins become fouled by the machinations of a racist Senator (Keenan Wynn) and the dreams of some sharecroppers (Don Francks and others). Meanwhile, Og is in pursuit, his immortality on the line. Director Francis Ford Coppola's vision of blending the real and the super-real has never been more clear than in this glimmering 1080p HD presentation.