Finian's Rainbow

He wears a ratty old cardigan instead of tails, a battered felt hat in place of a topper - but one glimpse of those agile feet and you know he´s Fred Astaire. The great entertainer sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian´s Rainbow, director Francis Ford Coppola´s exuberant movie of the 1947 Broadway hit.

Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter (Petula Clark), a love struck leprechaun (Tommy Steele) and a bigoted Southern senator (Keenan Wynn) transformed by misbegotten magic. The treasurable Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg score includes How Are Things In Glocca Morra?, Look Into the Rainbow, If This Isn´t Love and Old Devil Moon. Watching it, you´ll be in clover. Four-leaf all the way.