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Saturday, March 14, 2015
FINIAN'S RAINBOW
Just finished watching FINIAN'S RAINBOW :) Awesome film! Francis Ford Coppola's first big film (his second) at age 29. I believe this film was the reason Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass cast both Fred Astaire and Keenan Wynn, together again, in SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN a very short time after completion of this film. The entire cast is great and Coppola cleverly worked the civil rights movement/prejudice into the story line. Tommy Steele plays OG the Leprechaun wonderfully. Petula Clark sings like an angel and Astaire dances diligently at a very late age (when he leaves his daughter at the end of the film, it will bring a tear to your eye). The DVD has the PREMIERE hosted by LEE PHILLIP from WBBM-TV in Chicago (I remember her well) and Coppola's commentary is very insightful. He made the film to impress his father and I am sure he was impressed!.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhefldrBRdN3mwh36lpPWTQ8ux_vdpLvtcOnRjSw5_aQ7yGDQX1KegyiUAd_hfSOivGQPE0koQptuZ2KrobXLUes9l8ft9hWhOFh_UFcNKTCODdyb9nX7JDvPEQ3y6PvYiYQj3v/s640/FINIAN'S%2BRAINBOW%2B2.JPG)
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