Showing posts with label Petula Clark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Petula Clark. Show all posts
Sunday, May 31, 2020
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!.
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