Finian's Rainbow

You will believe in leprechauns!

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, Finian's Rainbow.

Everyone in the world knows that all Americans are millionaires but only Finian McLonergan (Astaire), of Glocca Morra, Ireland, knows why. By a process of mathematics, logic and moonbeams, Finian deduces that it's the soil around Fort Knox: Why else would Americans dig the gold out of California to bury it again in Kentucky? All Finian has to do is wait for a full moon, waylay a leprechaun (Tommy Steele), borrow his magical crock of gold and devise a "reason" for his daughter, Sharon (Petula Clark), about why they must travel to Rainbow Valley in the state of "Missitucky."

Finian buries the gold in the magic soil, but there's an angry leprechaun in pursuit--with dire warnings of misery and destruction. Now, when wishes are made on the leprechaun's gold, history veers crazily from its path in this tuneful fantasy--proving all Finian's theories true!


Academy Award nominations for Best Music, Score of a Musical Picture and for Best Sound.

The original Broadway production won three Tony Awards.


Cast: 
Fred Astaire - Finian McLonergan
Petula Clark - Sharon McLonergan
Tommy Steele - Og the Leprechaun 
Don Francks - Woody Mahoney 
Keenan Wynn - Senator Billboard Rawkins 
Barbara Hancock - Susan the Silent 

Director: 
Francis Ford Coppola 


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