Finian's Rainbow (film) Quotes

Finian's Rainbow (film) is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Finian's Rainbow ended its run in 1970.

It features Joseph Landon as producer, Burton Lane in charge of musical score, and Philip H. Lathrop as head of cinematography.

Finian's Rainbow (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in Ireland. Each episode of Finian's Rainbow (film) is 145 minutes long. Finian's Rainbow (film) is distributed by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.

The cast includes: Keenan Wynn as Senator Billboard Rawkins, Fred Astaire as Finian McLonergan, Petula Clark as Sharon McLonergan, Tommy Steele as Og, Ronald Colby as Buzz Collins, Al Freeman Jr. as Howard, Louil Silas as Henry, Don Francks as Woody Mahoney, and Dolph Sweet as Sheriff.

Finian's Rainbow (film) Quotes

Fred Astaire as Finian McLonergan

• (Fred Astaire) "America is full of millionaires."
• (Petula Clark) "But Father, are there no ill clad or ill housed in America?"
• (Fred Astaire) "Aye, but they're the best ill clad and the best ill housed in the world."

• (Fred Astaire) "How are things in Glocca Morra?"
• (Tommy Steele) "Oh, alas, alack, and willy-wally. I weep for Ireland."
• (Fred Astaire) "Why, what's happened?"
• (Tommy Steele) "A blight has fallen over Ireland."
• (Fred Astaire) "The British are back?"
• (Tommy Steele) "Never have I seen such a curse befall a folk in all me four hundrend and fifty -- nine years. Poor Ireland."
• (Fred Astaire) "Poor Ireland."
• (Tommy Steele) "Suffering Ireland. The native land."
• (Fred Astaire) "Me native land. A fine lot of faery folk you are. You and your associates letting all this happen. Why don't you wish it away?"
• (Tommy Steele) "We've lost the power."
• (Fred Astaire) "You've lost the power to make wishes? What has Ireland to live for now. Answer me that."
• (Tommy Steele) "Doom and gloom. DOOOOOOOOM AND GLOOOOOOOOM."
• (Fred Astaire) "Who's the author of this foul outrage?"
• (Tommy Steele) "A monster, McLonnergan."
• (Fred Astaire) "A monster? You mean the old flame-breathing type with the head of a dragon?"
• (Tommy Steele) "Oh, no, this is a tiny wee monster, about -- your size."
• (Fred Astaire) "Lead me to him. Who is this monster?"
• (Tommy Steele) "You'll excuse me for pointing, Mr. McLonnergan -- but it's you."

• (Fred Astaire) "Don't be superstitious, it's bad luck."

• (Fred Astaire) "How dare you come back here. Didn't I tell you you were an optical delusion?"
• (Tommy Steele) "I was ready to believe you yesterday but not today. Today I have proof."
• (Fred Astaire) "What proof?"
• (Tommy Steele) "Does an optical illusion feel such a hungry yearning burning inside of him? Does an optical illusion feel the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom in the roaring traffic's boom in his lonely room?"
• (Fred Astaire) "Are you flying high and wide on a magic carpet ride full of butterflies inside?"
• (Tommy Steele) "Aye, and what's worse, smoke keeps coming out of me eyes."
• (Fred Astaire) "You go round like an elevator lost in the tide?"
• (Tommy Steele) "That's the feeling. Day and night, night and day."

• (Fred Astaire) "Leprechaun, I've come to a decision. I deny your existence. You're only a figment of me imagination."
• (Tommy Steele) "I am?"
• (Fred Astaire) "And I'll prove it to myself by walking right through you."
• (Fred Astaire) "Step aside."
• (Fred Astaire) "There, you see?"
• (Tommy Steele) "Oh, this is dreadful. I don't exist."

• (Fred Astaire) "Now that you're half mortal, you're indecent."

• (Fred Astaire) "What do you think makes America different from Ireland?"
• (Petula Clark) "It has more Irishmen?"

• (Fred Astaire) "You're an imposter. You can't be leprechaun you're too tall."
• (Tommy Steele) "I know, and I'm getting taller."

Tommy Steele as Og

• (Tommy Steele) "I'll have to alter your personality. Stand up please."
• (Keenan Wynn) "Why don't you leave me alone?"
• (Tommy Steele) "Oh, this won't be a bit hard. All we have to do is broaden out that narro mind, reduce some of the bigotry, and your pomposity won't show through at all. Wait till everyone sees you in your new spring psyche. People will say you're in love. Now; 'Fiddle, foddle, foil and fiddle/ cure this fuddled individual / whirl, ye waters and unwind/ this tangled, medieval mind / breath of bee and bluebird's wing / make his scowling spirits sing / balm of briar, sandlewood / season him with brotherhood / magic vapors, make this person a better person / Not a worse 'un.'; He sleeps. The cure's beginning to work."

• (Tommy Steele) "Fairy land was never like this."

• (Tommy Steele) "Sharon, you're the only one. The only one --"
• (Tommy Steele) "But you're not Sharon at all. You're Susan the Silent. And yet I feel the same frenzy for you. Is this what it's like to be mortal? Is every girl the only girl? I'm beginning to like it."

• (Tommy Steele) "What fools these mortals be."

Petula Clark as Sharon McLonergan

• (Petula Clark) "It's gold."
• (Fred Astaire) "Aye, it's a pot of gold."
• (Petula Clark) "And you stole it."
• (Fred Astaire) "I did not steal it. I only borrowed."
• (Petula Clark) "Who did you borrow it from?"
• (Fred Astaire) "Why do you want to know?"
• (Petula Clark) "So we can lend it right back to him, that's why."
• (Fred Astaire) "That's impossible. He's not mortal."
• (Petula Clark) "You killed him."
• (Fred Astaire) "Of course not. He never was mortal. He's a leprechaun."
• (Petula Clark) "A leprechaun?"
• (Fred Astaire) "Of course. Who else would have gold in Ireland?"

• (Petula Clark) "Do you feel a warmish, kind of glowish, peculiarish sensation?"
• (Tommy Steele) "No -- it's a sort of quiverish, shiverish, flibberty-gibberish sensation."
• (Petula Clark) "Does it make you feel hummingbirds in your heart?"
• (Tommy Steele) "Butterflies in my feet."
• (Petula Clark) "Bees in your bonnet."
• (Tommy Steele) "Stars in my britches."
• (Petula Clark) "It makes you want to dance."
• (Tommy Steele) "I hadn't noticed."

• (Petula Clark) "I don't know who Rand is but I never trusted a McNally."

• (Petula Clark) "Do you mean to say you're taking this land from these people merely because their skins are black?"
• (Louil Silas) "Don't let them chase us, Sharon."
• (Keenan Wynn) "Will somebody shut this kid up? He's making me look like a bully. Get them out of here, Sheriff."
• (Dolph Sweet) "You heard the Senator, you folks better start packing."
• (Unnamed) "Is Henry the wrong color?"
• (Petula Clark) "No, he's the right color."
• (Petula Clark) "But there's something wrong with the world. I wish --"
• (Fred Astaire) "Sharon, don't --"
• (Petula Clark) "There's something wrong with the world that him and his kind have made for people like Henry. I wish you could know what that world is like. I wish to God you were black."
• (Keenan Wynn) "Well, I'm a son of a biscuit --"

• (Petula Clark) "Father is a mineralogist from the old country. He can make gold sprout out of the ground."
• (Keenan Wynn) "Gold? There's no gold in Ireland."
• (Fred Astaire) "I meself discovered a vein our countrymen have been searching for ever since the reign of -- Alfred the Thoughtless."
• (Keenan Wynn) "Who?"
• (Fred Astaire) "You've never heard of Alfred the Thoughtless? He was King of Erin following his father, Thomas the Temporary, who in turn was the only son of the Virgin Queen, Serena the Spotless."

• (Petula Clark) "Well, this is a fine kettle of fish. And how do you explain these strange shenanigans?"
• (Petula Clark) "Well, if you won't speak, back into the well with you."
• (Tommy Steele) "Oh, no."
• (Petula Clark) "So, you've found your tongue. Why were you hiding in that well?"
• (Tommy Steele) "I wasn't hiding. Somebody had set me on fire and I had to put myself out."
• (Petula Clark) "Who was it that put the torch to you."
• (Tommy Steele) "It was a sunbeam."
• (Petula Clark) "A sunbeam?"
• (Tommy Steele) "A sunbeam disguised as a fairy queen. But you can't fool me, I know a sunbeam when I see one."

• (Petula Clark) "When a rich man doesn't want to work/ He's a bon vivant/ Yes, he's a bon vivant. But when a poor man doesn't want to work / he's a loafer, he's a lounger he's a lazy good for nothing --"
• (Fred Astaire) "He's a jerk. When a rich man loses on a horse/ isn't he the sport /oh, isn't he the sport / but when a poor man loses on a horse / he's a gambler, he's a spender, he's a lowlife, he's a reason for divorce. When a rich man chases after dames, he's a man about town/ a man about town / but when a poor man chases after dames / he's a bounder, he's a rounder, he's a rotter, and a lotter dirty names."

Louil Silas as Henry

• (Louil Silas) "Susan wants to tell you something."
• (Ronald Colby) "Well, I'm listening."
• (Unnamed) "What's she saying?"
• (Louil Silas) "She says you've got to wait for Woody. He's bringing the money."
• (Ronald Colby) "I didn't hear her say anything."
• (Unnamed) "Naturally. She was born silent."
• (Unnamed) "One of the few women ever was."
• (Louil Silas) "Sure, Mister. She don't do talk-talk, she does foot-talk."
• (Ronald Colby) "'Foot-talk?' That's ridiculous. What's she saying now?"

Keenan Wynn as Senator Billboard Rawkins

• (Keenan Wynn) "My family's been having nothing but trouble with immigrants ever since they come to this country."

• (Keenan Wynn) "You've been violating the law, here."
• (Fred Astaire) "Since when?"
• (Keenan Wynn) "This afternoon. I just finished drafting this."
• (Keenan Wynn) "Local ordinance number 7428: be it known that in the county of Rainbow Valley, it is a felony for members of the Caucasian and Negro races --"
• (Fred Astaire) "But it seems to me that this law could not be a legal law --"
• (Keenan Wynn) "Of course it's legal. I don't know where you immigrants get these radical, foreign ideas."
• (Petula Clark) "From a wee book the immigration officer handed us. It's called 'The United States Constitution.'"
• (Fred Astaire) "Haven't you read it?"
• (Keenan Wynn) "I don't have time to read it, I'm too busy defending it."

• (Keenan Wynn) "Gentlemen, the festering tides of radicalism are upon us. But before I yield up our glorious South -and her sister commowealth, the U.S. of A; I will lay down my life. I will do more; I will filibuster. Back, you crackpots. Forward, America. Forward to the hallowed principles of our forefathers. Forward to the sweet tranquility of the status quo. Forward -- to yesterday."

• (Keenan Wynn) "I can't show my face."
• (Tommy Steele) "What's wrong with your face?"
• (Keenan Wynn) "Are you blind, boy? I'm black."
• (Tommy Steele) "I think it's very becoming."
• (Keenan Wynn) "It is NOT. I'm a white man, dammit. A white man. At least I was, up until a couple of days ago."
• (Tommy Steele) "Well, that's a coincidence. I was green a couple of weeks ago. Don't you find the occasional change of color interesting?"

Don Francks as Woody Mahoney

• (Don Francks) "How'd you get so pretty? And so rich?"
• (Petula Clark) "Well, you see, in Glocca Morra, where we come from, there's an old legend, and it says: 'You'll never grow old and you'll never grow poor, if you look to the rainbow, beyond the next moor.'"
• (Don Francks) "That's a lovely legend."
• (Petula Clark) "Aye."
• (Don Francks) "I wonder who thought it up."
• (Petula Clark) "My father: Finian McLonnergan."

Ronald Colby as Buzz Collins

• (Ronald Colby) "Well, you'll like working here, Boy. I've hired all the senator's butlers for the past ten years. Hundreds of them. He's a little intolerant at times, but that's just his blood pressure. Now, let's see you serve that julep."
• (Ronald Colby) "Oh, no. Rawkins won't like that, that's no way to serve a julep. It's too fast. Get some shuffle into it. You've seen some of the new movies like 'Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' haven't you? Here, like this, George."
• (Al Freeman Jr.) "Howard."
• (Ronald Colby) "Yeah, okay, Jackson."
• (Ronald Colby) "Yo' julep suh, Massa Rawkins, suh, all frossy an' minty, yawk. Yawk. Yawk. You see, George?"
• (Al Freeman Jr.) "Uh -- why do I have to shuffle?"
• (Ronald Colby) "Oh, I don't have to explain that to you. It makes for kindly feelings between employer and employee. Now try it again, only not so fast this time."
• (Al Freeman Jr.) "Uh -- how did you do that again?"
• (Ronald Colby) "I don't understand you Jackson. I mean, you don't walk like your supposed to, you don't talk like you're supposed to, you don't even know how to serve a julep like you're supposed to. Are you educated or something?"
• (Al Freeman Jr.) "Well, I'm working on my Masters."
• (Ronald Colby) "Working on your master's what?"
• (Al Freeman Jr.) "It's a college degree."
• (Ronald Colby) "Oh. Don't mention the word 'college' around the Senator. It upsets him. But that's beside the point, George. Do you want a job here or don't you?"
• (Al Freeman Jr.) "Well, yes sir I do, I -- Ah needs da money."
• (Ronald Colby) "Oh. Well, that's all the more reason for you to make good here. Then when you get your -- college degree, you've got a job here for life."

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