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I’ve been waiting to look a decent print of FINIAN’S RAINBOW for sometime. Though not an all-time popular, I do like the salvage, and I’m a gigantic Petula Clark fan. Other video versions I’ve seen were abominable pan-scan versions with faulty color and unpleasant sound. Warners has done the film justice. Widescreen, 5.1 Surround and a prance down memory lane with Francis Ford Coppola, the director.
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An inspiring price, this is the first time I am aware of where the lead actress in the film has dubbed the foreign language track. Petula Clark, being a valid singer in several languages, had a sizable French-language career going at this time, parallel to her English-language one. Also being an actress from childhood, she fits perfect as Sharon here. However, this is the first time I’ve heard her French vocals of the secure, as well as the dialog. The male leads are other artists (one doing a terrible Chevalier for Astaire), but it is definitely Petula in French, as well as the modern English soundtrack. This is an absolute treat and collectible for all Petula fans around the world.
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Opening on Broadway in 1947 with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y. “Yip” Harburg (who wrote the lyrics for 1939’s THE WIZARD OF OZ), FINIAN’S RAINBOW was an unexpected wreck that generated one pop classic after another–”How Are Things In Glocca Morra?,” “Ancient Devil Moon,” and “Examine To The Rainbow” to name but three. But when talk turned to a film version, not a single studio in Hollywood would touch it: although the myth was fantasy, it was also extremely satirical, contained elements that had a decidedly socialist edge, and made one of the most wickedly humorous statements on racism seen up to that time. With Hollywood operating under the production code and the nation drifting into the communist paranoia of the 1950s, the whole thing was impossibly hot. And so FINIAN’S RAINBOW remained off the mask for over twenty years… until 1968, when a sudden splash of approved conceal musicals prompted Warner Brothers to bankroll it.
The set is deliberately ridiculous, and finds Irishman Finian McLonergan (Fred Astaire) and his long suffering daughter Sharon in Tennessee, where Finian plans to bury a crock of gold stolen from a leprechan (Tommy Steele) on the theory that the land around Fort Knox will fabricate the gold grow. But things steal an unexpected turn when they come in Rainbow Valley, where they encounter a commune-like community of murky and white tobacco sharecroppers who are doing battle with a viciously bigoted Senator (Keenan Wynn.) And when daughter Sharon is outraged by the Senator’s racism and happens to be standing by the hidden crock of gold–she accidentally “wishes” the Senator dark!
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Unlike the 1947 stage present, the great cover version of FINIAN’S RAINBOW tanked at the box office, and it is microscopic wonder: both producers and then-novice director Francis Ford Coppola made a host of very basic mistakes with the material, the first of which was not keeping the film consistently within its modern 1940s context; they instead give it a ‘contemporary’ tone that not only undercuts the fanciful storyline but makes many of the story’s elements seem heavy-handed. In the process they manage to blunt the edge of the modern in a very indispensable sort of method. There are also a number of cinematic problems with the movie, which feels awkwardly filmed and collected more awkwardly edited, and the film visibly shifts between outdoor set-ups and studio soundstage sets in a very depressed sort of arrangement.
All of that said, there is collected a immense deal to luxuriate in in FINIAN’S RAINBOW–the aforementioned gain for one and the truly memorable performances for another. Astaire is timeless, Tommy Steele almost walks away with the reveal, Keegan Wynn–in spite of some rather ill-advised make-up–gives a memorable performance as the bigoted Senator, and Al Freeman Jr. is absolutely hilarious in the sequence where he applies for the job of butler in the Senator’s home–I laugh objective thinking about it! But the trusty revelation here is Petula Clark. Best known as a pop singer, Clark is perfection as Sharon McLonergan; it is a spacious pity that she was never again so well-cast on hide. And together they manage to gloss over most of the film’s weaknesses; if you’re a musical fan, you’re likely to devour it.
A word of warning, however. At note, FINIAN’S RAINBOW exists only on videotape, and while the VHS release is not dreadful per se, it is also pan-and-scan. Admittedly, the cinematography wasn’t remarkable to start with, but purists (of which I am one when it comes to ratios) will be frustrated.
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