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
Irish folklore Irish folklore as its “second life”. Even though there is still a natural existence of folklore within its natural community, folklore material is now being used in other environments, such as marketing (with strategies suggesting tradition and authenticity for goods), movies and TV-shows ("The Secret of Kells", mention of the Banshee are found in tv-shows such as "Supernatural", "Teen Wolf" or "Charmed"), books (the book series "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel," the novel "American Gods"...), contributing to the creation of a new body of Irish folklore. Irish folklore Due to its complexity folklore does not have a single