Darby O'Gill and the little people (Motion picture). Two-dimensional moving image. Gnome-mobile (Motion picture). Two-dimensional moving image. One and only, genuine, original family band (Motion picture). Two-dimensional moving image. Happiest millionaire (Motion picture). Two-dimensional moving image. Darby O'Gill and the little people (Motion picture). Two-dimensional moving image. French.
Notes:
Originally released as motion pictures 1959-1968. The first film is based on H.T. Kavanagh's Darby O'Gill stories; the second film is based on the book by Upton Sinclair; the third film is based on the biography by Laura Bower Van Nuys "The family band : from the Missouri to the Black Hills, 1881-1990"; the last film is based on the book "My Philadelphia father" by Cordelia Drexel Biddle. Dolby digital mono or Dolby digital 2.0, wide screen 1.66:1 or full screen 1.33:1. Darby O'Gill: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro; The gnome-mobile: Walter Brennan, Matthew Garber; The one and only, genuine, original family band: Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen; The happiest millionaire: Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele.
Contents:
Darby O'Gill and the little people (1959) / written by Lawrence Edward Watkin ; directed by Robert Stevenson -- The gnome-mobile (1967) / screenplay by Ellis Kadison ; directed by Robert Stevenson -- The one and only, genuine, original family band (1968) / produced by Bill Anderson ; screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley ; directed by Michael O'Herlihy -- The happiest millionaire (1967) / written by AJ Carothers ; directed by Norman Tokar.
Summary:
Darby is an Irish storyteller who matches his wits against the King of the Leprechauns; when an eccentric millionaire tries to help a group of gnomes find the rest of their tribe, he is suspected of being crazy; in 1888 the Bower Family Band moves to the Dakota Territory where they cause trouble by their pro-Cleveland sentiments; a young Irish immigrant becomes the butler for an unconventional millionaire
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