I first saw Darby O'Gill in 1999. The film was already a classic then, and the first time I saw Sean Connery not playing Bond or Indiana Jones' father. He was young in this film, and he sang. Something I don't believe he has ever done again since. An interesting fact about Sean Connery (as of this writing), he is the only cast member still alive.Albert Sharpe came out of retirement, as a favor to Walt Disney, to make this film. He was around his mid seventies. He was a pretty swell actor in this film, but I've nothing to compare him since this is the only film I've seen him act.Darby O'Gill is a fun, family film. Great for St. Patrick's Day.

For me this is one Disney's best and perhaps one of the more underrated live-action classics. It is a film that makes me smile and happy every time I see it. The special effects are marvellous and hold up surprisingly well today, for me only the banshee is a disappointment, but compared to the rest that's relative. The scenery is absolutely lovely and captured by some splendid cinematography, and the music is always delightful and catchy in how it sticks in your head, and I mean this in a good way. There is also a sweet and imaginative story and witty and charming dialogue. The acting is great, Albert Sharpe is wonderful and Janet Munro is good value. Sean Connery, before the time of James Bond, is dashing and likable, his singing is not great as such but I also don't mind it. In conclusion, this little film is a sheer delight. 10/10 Bethany Cox

An extremely charming fantasy from Disney with accents straight out of an Irish Spring commercial. Darby O'Gill, teller of tall tales, captures the king of the leprechauns and hopes to get his pot'o'gold. The cast of character actors are a delight to watch -- Albert Sharpe as Darby, Jimmy O'Dea as the leprechaun, Estelle Winwood, Kieron Moore, Walter Fitzgerald and Denis O'Dea. Sean Connery and Janet Munro ("The Crawling Eye") are the romantic leads. The ending, complete with scary banshees and a death coach, approaches the death of Bambi's mother on the childhood-traumameter, and will possibly leave adults and kids alike teary-eyed.

Old man Darby meets leprechauns but the townspeople think that he's just a drunken fool. The scenery is nice but the story is unfocused and only marginally interesting for the most part, eventually becoming supernatural and illogical, with some scenes that may be too scary for youngsters, who presumably are the target audience for this hokum. One of the biggest problems is that there are no subtitles! For those without Irish ears, most of the thickly-accented dialog spoken by Sharpe, as Darby, and Winwood, as a conniving old woman, is incomprehensible. It is nice to see Connery in one of his earliest roles (he sings!) and Munro is lovely.