Leprechaun's Christmas Gold

Let’s celebrate something in Ireland with Leprechaun’s Christmas Gold. I have this special on VHS as it’s shown after Frosty’s Winter Wonderland.

Art Carney plays a leprechaun named Blarney Kilakilarney, as he tells the story how a human sailor Hermy named Dinty Doyle was going to get a pine tree at an Ireland island that barely inhabited by leprechauns. When Dinty pulled out the pine tree, it freed a banshee, as her the storm happened. He got across Blarney at a hidden cavern, where he guards the gold. Blarney inceptionally tells the story how he had a married life with a shoemaker named Faye. The Banshee tries her best to steal the leprechaun’s gold with her shape shifting powers, but it failed the gold miners when she took the form of the poor woman, but not Faye as she took the form of Lady Borealis or a guardian angel. Blarney and his wife split up with my favorite line of the film.

Blarney: “You’re daff, that’s what!”

Faye: I’m what?

Blarney: I’m what?

Faye: I’m warning you, husband!

Though I thought he said “Deaf”, which would make the scene longer in a loop and he’s an idiot.

After Blarney was kicked out from his wife, he went to the mines alone as the rest of the miners became shoemakers. The Banshee got to Blarney, but the Earthquake happened to split Blarney’s location from Ireland.

The Lord of the Leprechaun has tricked the Banshee to take the form of water, as Blarney seal her with dirt and assuming seeds, as the Pine Tree sealed her in, until the where this story begun.

After Blarney tells the story, he got drugged by the Banshee. The effect has Blarney to surrender his gold, but to whom?

Why does Klarney need to tell the story if he’s going to tell the story in the story? That kind of story telling is almost on par with Return of the King’s storytelling, but it’s not worst enough since that film is an action war film where the ones telling the story are alive while the rest are dead or MIA.

Many could call this special dull, but that’s what The Frist Christmas is fully reserved for. I can call this entertaining with 3 out of 4 songs; the opening theme is relaxing, Kilakilarney Shoes is fun, and Christmas in Kalarney is memorable enough that Big Crosby’s version is played today.

Art Carney is a kind soul, and the Banshee fun to watch. The rest are forgettable, and I swear one of the leprechauns has Kris Kringle’s head.

Much like films starting with Pinocchio’s Christmas, there’s little to no reason to connect Christmas to this story. However, this can work for this film culturally; we can see how Christmas is celebrated in Ireland. However, whenever we have leprechauns, it’s either a St. Patrick special or a horror film with Warrick Davis. This film can be seen as a lesser Disney’s Darby O’Gil and the Little People with a less scary Banshee. The best way to stop a Banshee is to shut the door on her face, as Binky Barnes demonstrates that in Arthur.

Leprechaun Christmas Gold isn’t really much Gold film, but it’s more Silver, Copper, Mur, or Peppermint kind of film. Perhaps we should be close to Christmas with the help from the great and powerful Baum.