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I haven't seen this movie in nearly 15 years, and I remembered only the terrifying banshee scaring the hell out of me as a child. So now that I'm 25, I felt like I could overcome my childhood fears and finally give it another go.
Watching it now, I realise that this is purely Walt Disney at his best. The special effects wowed me beyond anything I've seen in the last few years (and this came out in 1959). These guys were geniuses. Nowadays when you see effects, you can tell almost immediately they're computer graphics. But with Darby O'Gill, and anything predating the mid 80s, you had to guess how they did these effects. They look brilliant and there's NO computers whatsoever.
The story is quite good as are the actors, including Sean Connery in his first movie role ever.
"Darby O'Gill" is now among my favourite films of all time due to those two things above and the joy that I had watching it all these years later.
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ThatsMrBoydToYou 28 March 2010
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