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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Darby O'Gill and the Little People is a 1959 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea, in a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and its screenplay written by Lawrence Edward Watkin after the books of Herminie Templeton Kavanagh. 
The film's title is a slight modification of one of the two Kavanagh books, "Darby O'Gill and the Good People". This book
Disney said the script would still be done by Lawrence Watkins, based on the stories and three months of research into Gaelic folklore at Dublin Library, as well as hours talking with the Shanachies, the professional storytellers. Disney hoped that Barry Fitzgerald would play both Darby and the King of the Little People.
In January 1958 Disney left for London with the film's director, Robert Stevenson, to cast the movie By the following month the title of the film had been changed to "Darby O'Gill and the Little People"