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Budget $3,500,000
Running Time
2 hours, 21 minutes
Country USA
Studio Seven Arts, Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• Finian's Rainbow
• Der Goldene Regenbogen (1969)
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Genre: Fantasy, Family, Musical, Love
Tagline: If all you want out of a movie is a great, big, wonderful time - just follow the rainbow - whistle the songs - and join in the fun.
Plot: Twenty years after its opening on Broadway, the musical FINIAN’S RAINBOW made its debut on film thanks to Francis Ford Coppola. The movie stars Fred Astaire 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. The hit song "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" is one of the highlights from the musical score. This was Fred Astaire’s last full-length musical, and he is a delight to watch.
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I Know Where I'm Going!, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Card | | | Keenan Wynn
Dr. Strangelove, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Last Unicorn | | | |
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Burton Lane
Royal Wedding, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever |
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