Film version of the 1947 Broadway musical featuring music by Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg. An Irish rogue, played by Fred Astaire, plants gold in the soil outside Fort Knox.
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Finian's Rainbow
Musical morality tale about prejudice directed by Francis Ford Copolla and starring Fred
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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 gol...
Advantages: Fred Astaire as Finian, Petula Clark as his daughter Disadvantages: Too exhausting to list
Francis Ford Coppola's FINIAN'S RAINBOW was released in 1968. Four years before his first great film, THE GODFATHER, Coppola hadn't offered anything that would even resemble what he would offer in years to come, in which he would grow to become, with Martin Scorsese, one of America's greatest filmmakers. His previous two films, YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW and DEMENTIA 13, were, if nothing else, entertaining, THE TERROR was woefully inept and TONIGHT FOR ... ...down upon him. Indeed, with FINIAN'S RAINBOW Francis Ford Coppola must have been, with Ed Wood, an inch away from Hollywood's desolation row. It is, if not one of the most incompetent musicals, one of the most incompetent mainstream films ever made. Indeed, to this day I still shy away at the idea of exclaiming somebody a genius who was responsible for such a tragedy; however, genius he clearly is for such masterpieces as THE GODFATHER I and II and ...
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Actor(s): Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn
Genre: Musicals & Music Films - Musicals & Other Music Films
Classification: Universal
Production Year: 1968
Running Time: 2 hours 19 minutes
Plot: Film version of the 1947 Broadway musical featuring music by Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg. An Irish rogue, played by Fred Astaire, plants gold in the soil outside Fort Knox.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 16/05/2005
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: D 011208
Barcode: 7321900112086
Screenwriter: E.Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy
DVD Description
Film version of the 1947 Broadway musical featuring music by Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg. An Irish rogue, played by Fred Astaire, plants gold in the soil outside Fort Knox.
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: New Introduction And Commentary By Director Francis Ford Coppola, Remastered Soundtrack, Featurette The World Premiere Of Finians Rainbow, Theatrical Trailer
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
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