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A Balasaur Score of 57 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes 47%. Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do. Most of the 90 1960s fantasy movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
An Irishman and his daughter arrive in the American South with a stolen pot of gold, hoping to make their fortune. Pursued by a leprechaun desperate to recover his treasure, they become entangled in a battle over land, love, and prejudice in Rainbow Valley—where the gold’s magic turns wishes, and lives, upside down.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes47%
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
50 audience votes
Key crew
- Fred SaidyScreenplay
- E.Y. HarburgScreenplay
- Francis Ford CoppolaDirector
- Ray HeindorfOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Fred AstaireFinian McLonergan
- Petula ClarkSharon McLonergan
- Tommy Steele'Og' the Leprechaun
- Don FrancksWoody Mahoney
- Keenan WynnSenator Billboard Rawkins
- Barbara HancockSusan the Silent
- Al Freeman Jr.Howard
- Ronald ColbyBuzz Collins
- Dolph SweetSheriff
- Wright KingDistrict Attorney
- Louil SilasHenry
- Brenda ArnauSharecropper 'Necessity' (uncredited)
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Themes
golddeaf-mutefort knoxwishmusicalbased on play or musicalleprechaunracismirishmanfather daughter relationship