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Finian's Rainbow on Video - 1968

Finian's Rainbow - Broadway Musical on DVD Blu-ray 1968 Cover Art
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A funny thing happened to Finian's Rainbow in between its debut as a Broadway musical in 1947 and its appearance as a film in 1968. After 21 years, its theme of racial tension in the American South was no longer cutting edge, and the fact that its heroes are a group of sharecroppers called the Rainbow Valley Tobacco Cooperative dates it even further. Add a number of subplots and the heavy hand of a 29-year-old Francis Ford Coppola directing his first and only musical, and the two-and-a-half-hour running time feels bloated. Hermes Pan (best known for the classic Astaire-Rogers movies) is credited with choreographing the overbusy musical numbers, but he was reportedly overruled by Coppola at every turn. Still, there is a lot to enjoy in this movie, most notably Fred Astaire in his last lead role in a musical. Fred plays Finian McLonergan, an Irishman who has traveled to America in hopes of planting a pilfered pot of gold near Fort Knox and watching it grow. Even at 69, Fred shows he is still capable of a sprightly step and warbling "Look to the Rainbow." Another plus is the casting of '60s pop icon Petula Clark as his daughter, as she sings with an unaffected loveliness. Finally, the score by Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg includes two of the best Broadway songs ever written--"Old Devil Moon" and "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?"--as well as the comic ditty "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love." --David Horiuchi (Amazon.com)

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Starring:
 Fred Astaire ..... Finian McLonergan

Petula Clark ..... Sharon McLonergan

Tommy Steele ..... Og

Don Francks ..... Woody Mahoney

Keenan Wynn ..... Senator Rawkins

Al Freeman, Jr. ..... Howard

Barbara Hancock ..... Susan the Silent

Ronald Colby .... Buzz Collins

Dolph Sweet ....Sheriff

Wright King .... District Attorney

Louil Silas .... Henry

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Filmed: 1968 - Released: 1968

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