Finian's Rainbow (film) trailer. The film was released on Blu-ray on March 7, 2017. Finian's Rainbow (film) Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 Irish-American musical film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Fred Astaire and Petula Clark. The screenplay by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy is based on their 1947 stage musical of the same name. It is a fantasy about an Irishman and his daughter who steal a leprechaun's magic pot of gold and emigrate to the United States, where they become involved in a dispute between rural landowners and a greedy, racist U.S. Senator. The film was nominated for several
At the End of the Rainbow mind-boggling children's film, straight from the mid-Sixties, when Americans would dump their youth at the local theater's "Kiddie Matinee" and subject the poor tots to all manner of cinematic torture. Such as "The Princess and the Magic Frog", a long-unseen rarity that's so hilariously impoverished, it makes "Jimmy, the Boy Wonder" look like a multimillion-dollar work of art. [...] There's more that a whiff of "Wizard of Oz" wafting through "The Princess and the Magic Frog", from the child who can't find his way home, to the Wicked Witch, er...Wizard, to the search for the end of the rainbow." With