Finian's Rainbow

When Sharon has finished washing her father's shirt, the front of her dress is wet, but when she meets Og the Leprechaun in the well, her dress is dry.

Before Sharon begins to sing her part during the "Old Devil Moon" she is lying down, as she begins to sing is sitting up and then in the next shot she is lying down again.

In the scene where Finian goes into the woods to bury the crock of gold, there is a shot looking down on him while he is digging the hole.

It shows quite a lot of dirt between the pile of dirt he has heaped up and the hole, enough to cover up the grass immediately around the hole on that side.

But in the shot right after he places the crock in the ground, there is no dirt on the grass around the hole.

In the song "Old Devil Moon" as Woody and Sharon dance through the stream, Woody has clearly got bare feet and his hands are in Sharon's.

In the next shot, he has his shoes back on.

It even looks like his trousers are dry.

The mail-order company whose catalog is used repeatedly in the movie is named "SHEARS" - the name being clearly visible on the front cover, at many points.

However, during the song "That Great Come and Get It Day", the inside of the front cover clearly reads "Only at Sears".

It took 20 years for one of post World War II Broadway's biggest hits to finally come to the screen. Finian's Rainbow ran for 725 performances in the 1947-48 season on Broadway and made a star out of David Wayne as Og the Leprechaun.

Strange musical--the second film by Francis Ford Coppola. Finian (Fred Astaire), an Irish man, comes to Rainbow Valley with a pot of gold and his strong-willed daughter Sharon (Petula Clark).

One of the most beautiful musical movies of its time. I'm glad I have this on DVD to watch over and over again as I am sure, if not already, it may have been withdrawn because of its racial elements.

I have loved this movie since I was a child. Tommy Steele is a treasure, Don Francks has an incredible voice, and it always makes me laugh out loud.

Fred Astaire was 69 years old when he left Glocca Morra as Finian McLonergan to put down roots in America. In "Finian's Rainbow," he gives us his swan song as a hoofer.

Where to start? Well, the answer to that question is usually ...

The cynical world of the late 60's didn't really want the number of sweet movie versions of Broadway musicals that they were producing, and "Finian's Rainbow" was no exception. While it may not have been an absolute disaster at the box office (and broke Warner Brothers the way "Hello, Dolly!

I love musicals and have done for the longest time. Finian's Rainbow is not among the best of the film musicals, but it is hardly among the worst either.

Made 20 years too late and just as public interest in this type of musical was waning, the last feature film of the great Fred Astaire was not well received-by audiences or critics. When the show debuted as a Broadway play in 1947, it was a provocative look at racial strife in the American South, but the movie musical is so watered down that the plot seems almost irrelevant.