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 it plays more like something you'd watch at 3 a.m. after a long night of overindulgence." And the "kiddie camp" connoisseurs at KiddieMatinee.com described the film writing, ""The Princess and the Magic Frog" (1965), produced and released originally as "At the End of the Rainbow", is a fascinating (albeit threadbare) U.S. fantasy film, very much in the spirit of similar mid-1960s Kiddie Matinee indie product such as "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", "The Magic Christmas Tree" and "Jimmy, the Boy Wonder". [...] (O)ne wonders if 60's tots would have found this odd fairy tale engaging or excruciating. It looks more