Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) | |
| Director(s) | Robert Stevenson |
| Producer(s) | Walt Disney |
| Top Genres | Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Top Topics | Disney |
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) was a Adventure - Family Film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney.
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People ( 1959 )
By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 17, 2016 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers"Three wishes I'll grant ye, great wishes an' small! But you wish a fourth and you'll lose them all!" Darby O'Gill is a wily old codger, but even with all his experience he canno' match wits with the king of the leprechauns, King O'Brien himself. On a spooky moonlit night in Ireland, Darby falls d... Read full article
Darby O'Gill and the Little People ( 1959 )
By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 17, 2016 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers"Three wishes I'll grant ye, great wishes an' small! But you wish a fourth and you'll lose them all!" Darby O'Gill is a wily old codger, but even with all his experience he canno' match wits with the king of the leprechauns, King O'Brien himself. On a spooky moonlit night in Ireland, Darby falls d... Read full article
Darby O'Gill and the Little People ( 1959 )
By The Metzinger Sisters on Mar 17, 2016 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers"Three wishes I'll grant ye, great wishes an' small! But you wish a fourth and you'll lose them all!" Darby O'Gill is a wily old codger, but even with all his experience he canno' match wits with the king of the leprechauns, King O'Brien himself. On a spooky moonlit night in Ireland, Darby falls d... Read full article
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with "Darby O'Gill and the Little People"
By Rick29 on Mar 17, 2015 From Classic Film & TV CafeIn the picturesque Irish village of Rathcullen, old codger Darby O'Gill (Albert Sharpe) spends more time in the pub talking about leprechauns than tending to the estate of Lord Fitzpatrick. So, it's no surprise when the landowner decides it's time to replace Darby with the younger Michael McBride (S... Read full article
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with "Darby O'Gill and the Little People"
By Rick29 on Mar 14, 2013 From Classic Film & TV CafeIn the picturesque Irish village of Rathcullen, old codger Darby O'Gill (Albert Sharpe) spends more time in the pub talking about leprechauns than tending to the estate of Lord Fitzpatrick. So, it's no surprise when the landowner decides it's time to replace Darby with the younger Michael McBride (S... Read full article
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Darby O'Gill: Do ye think I'm a babe in arms?
Paddy Scanlon: You are to the likes of 'im! Five thousand years old he is, an' every year of his life he's learned a knew trick.
Darby O'Gill: And *I've* learned a hundred of 'em!
[Katie is lost on Knocknasheega; a ghostly wail is heard]
Darby O'Gill: The banshee!
Michael McBride: Maybe it's just the wind.
Darby O'Gill: It's the wail of the banshee, the same as I heard the night Katie's mother was taken! She'll be destroyed entirely!
King Brian: [original soundtrack] A Phaidrig Óg!
Phadrig Oge: Sea, a thiarna!
King Brian: Faigh an Stradivarius.
Phadrig Oge: Seo chugainn, a thiarna!
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The leprechaun effects look very high tech and complicated, but most of them were achieved very simply by placing the "normal sized" actors closer to the camera than the "tiny" ones, and lining them up on the same horizontal plane through the lens so the distance between them could not be detected.
Walt Disney was initially hoping to cast Barry Fitzgerald in the dual roles of Darby O'Gill and King Brian. Fitzgerald reportedly declined due to his advanced age (although his eventual replacement as Darby, Albert Sharpe, was three years his senior). Disney regretted the loss of Fitzgerald in the lead role, and blamed the film's disappointing box-office performance partly on this loss.
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