Darby O'Gill and the Little People

Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Film poster by Reynold Brown
Directed byRobert Stevenson
Written byLawrence Edward Watkin
Based onDarby O'Gill
by H. T. Kavanagh
Produced byBill Anderson
Walt Disney
StarringAlbert Sharpe
Janet Munro
Sean Connery
Jimmy O'Dea
Kieron Moore
Estelle Winwood
Walter Fitzgerald
CinematographyWinton Hoch
Edited byStanley Johnson
Music byOliver Wallace
Production
company
Distributed byBuena Vista Distribution
Release dates
  • June 24, 1959 (1959-06-24) (Dublin)[1]
  • June 26, 1959 (1959-06-26) (Los Angeles)[1]
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box officeOriginal release:
$2.6 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2]
1969 re-release:
$2.3 million (US/ Canada rentals)[3]

Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a 1959 American fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, adapted from the Darby O'Gill stories of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh. Directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Lawrence Edward Watkin, the film stars Albert Sharpe as O'Gill alongside Janet Munro, Sean Connery, and Jimmy O'Dea. It was released on Walt Disney Home Video via video cassette in October 1981.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Details". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  2. ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, 6 January 1960 p 34
  3. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1969", Variety, 7 January 1970 p 15
  4. ^ "Disney Films on Cassette". Albuquerque Journal. October 23, 1981. p. 69.