--- title: 'Finian''s Rainbow (1968)' type: 'film' director: 'Francis Ford Coppola' released: '1968-01-01' runtime_minutes: 144 genres: - 'Fantasy' - 'Music' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/finians-rainbow-1968' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062974/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Finian's Rainbow (1968) 1968 · 144 min · Fantasy, Music · United States ## Synopsis Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 American musical fantasy film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and adapted by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy from the 1947 stage musical of the same name. It stars Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, and Tommy Steele. The plot follows an Irishman and his daughter, who steal a leprechaun's magic pot of gold and emigrate to the American South, where they become involved in a dispute between rural landowners and a greedy, racist U.S. senator. ## Credits - **Director:** [Francis Ford Coppola](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-ford-coppola) - **Screenplay:** [Yip Harburg](https://cinepixo.com/people/yip-harburg) - **Original Music Composer:** [Burton Lane](https://cinepixo.com/people/burton-lane) - **Director of Photography:** [Philip H. Lathrop](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-h-lathrop) - **Editor:** [Melvin Shapiro](https://cinepixo.com/people/melvin-shapiro) ## Cast - [Dolph Sweet](https://cinepixo.com/people/dolph-sweet) - [Wright King](https://cinepixo.com/people/wright-king) - [Ronald Colby](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-colby) - [Keenan Wynn](https://cinepixo.com/people/keenan-wynn) - [Roy Glenn](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-glenn) - [Fred Astaire](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-astaire) - [Al Freeman Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/al-freeman-jr) - [Tommy Steele](https://cinepixo.com/people/tommy-steele) - [Petula Clark](https://cinepixo.com/people/petula-clark) - [Don Francks](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-francks) - [Barbara Hancock](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-hancock) - [Avon Long](https://cinepixo.com/people/avon-long) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/finians-rainbow-1968 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1198750); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.