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 enlarge | Director: Robert Stevenson
Actors: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'dea, Kieron Moore
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  128 reviews
Sales Rank: 2622
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 91
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: DISD33570D
UPC: 786936233599
EAN: 0786936233599
ASIN: B0001I55SI
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 1959
Release Date: August 3, 2004
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 Great Gift July 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this a as a gift for my sister in law and she absolutely loved it!
Sure to make you glad of your Irish heritage June 15, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Long ago, back in old Ireland, there lived a caretaker named Darby O'Gill (played by Albert Sharpe), who had many tales of his encounters with the king of the Leprechauns. But who could have known that they were not made up? And when Darby's replacement shows up (played by a young Sean Connery), it throws everything into an uproar. But never sell Darby O'Gill short, nor King Brian.
This is an excellent Disney movie that dates back to 1959. It's a lot of fun, sure to make you glad of your Irish heritage, even if you don't have one. The story is very good, and the special effects are excellent for the time. But, even more so, it's the excellent actors that make this movie, really bringing their characters to life.
Overall, my family and I really enjoyed this movie, and we highly recommend it to you and your family. Even the extras are great, including a show on Sean Connery and the movie, a show on the making of the movie (those guys were wizards!), and a 50 minute Disney special.
By the way, you might recognize Jack MacGowran playing Phadrig Oge, he also played Feeney, Squire Danaher's lackey in The Quiet Man.
Really great movie especially during St. Patricks Day June 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fun movie. It's an older Disney movie but still had fun special effects and a really young Sean Connery (007) who I had never seen in this type of role. My kids have watched it at least 50 times since we bought it so it was money well spent. There's little people, singing, scary banshees, and pots of gold. Especially fun durning St. Patty Day.
Excellent image quality, charming special effects. May 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all, it must be said that unlike the videotape version, which is blurry and almost unwatchable, the DVD version is crystal clear and is as sharp any contemporary television program.
The story is excellent for kids. There is the contrast between good and evil, namely, a sneaky brute who likes to pick fights, versus Sean Connery, who is honest and charming.
Fantasy scenes abound, for example we see a leprechaun being changed into a rabbit. We see mountainsides spontaneously opening up where inside can be found dancing leprechauns and treasure chests spilling over with gold coins.
DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE is set in a small Irish town. Darby O'Gill is an old widower who likes to pass the time telling stories at the pub, to the delight and disbelief of others. As long as town priest Father Murphy isn't around, Darby spins yarns about the little people who he has encountered at a hilltop known as Knocknasheega. Meanwhile, Katie, his daughter, is content to take care of things at home, and insists she doesn't have time or great desire for a love.
One day Lord Fitzpatrick arrives in town and delivers the news that Darby is to be replaced as caretaker of the Lord's estate. Rather than upset his daughter with the word of his retirement, Darby tells her that the caretaker-to-be is merely helping with some house work. That man is Sean Connery, a polite, young fellow who feels that Darby should let his daughter in on things.
Darby has another task in mind. He's to ride into the next town and bring back the new church bell for Father Murphy. At night, while he's trying to get his horse, he falls down the well atop Knocknasheega and plummets down the well and into the world of leprechauns.
Here, a wonderland sequence depicts Darby amongst countless leprechauns. Darby encounters the legendary King Brian Connors the 5,000-year-old leprechaun monarch (just under two feet tall). King Brian explains that Darby has been brought to their world as a favor, allowing him to escape the disappointing early retirement he faces in the other world. This scene is accompanied by Irish fiddle music, fiddling with lightning speed.
The leprechauns can only work their magic when it is dark out, and while a leprechaun will grant you three wishes, making a fourth wish negates the three before. General merriment ensues as Darby plays the fiddle and the leprechauns do hundreds of heel clicks and assorted clogging steps. The music, supplied by fiddles and pipes, is a wonder to behold.
In another scene, Darby tricks the King into staying with him all night, in an episode where Darby and the King exchange dozens of silly rhymes. The exchange of rhymes occurs in a barn, and a nearby horse engages in many amusing expressions, a feature of the film sure to amuse every kid. Another highlight, is that Darby teases the King by allowing a cat to chase the King about the barn, and the King hides behind the spokes of a wagon wheel to protect himself, the spokes resembling a jail cell. The King and Darby resume their laughing exchange of silly poems, but once the rooster crows at dawn, and the sun comes out, the King has lost his powers (e.g., to jump through doorways) and Darby succeeds in capturing the King and puts him into a bag. Then Darby demands his three wishes. (I don't reveal the ending.)
I saw this movie when it first came out, in a theater in Philadelphia. It was a hot day. I was only eight. Although the movie has scary parts, I was not particularly scared. I found the banshee part about as scary as the plague scene in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, a movie released a year or so before DARBY O'GILL.
 reliving childhood April 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I remembered being terrified of the "Banshee" when I saw this as a child. Seeing it again as an adult was really enjoyable: the light hearted nature of the characters and the repartee between Darby and the leprechaun king was very funny. It certainly has appeal to anyone with some Irish background.
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