The Last Leprechaun Explained

Director:David Lister
Producer:Paul Matthews
Elizabeth Matthews
Music:Neill Solomon
Cinematography:Vincent G. Cox
Location:Around Johannesburg, South Africa[1]
Editor:Erica Luttich
Company:Peakviewing[2]
Network:BBC
Runtime:93 minutes
Country:United Kingdom / South Africa
Language:English

The Last Leprechaun is a BBC-broadcast television fantasy film of 1998, directed by David Lister and starring Veronica Hamel, Jack Scalia, and Mick Walter.

Plot

Tommy and Ethel Barridge, the children of multi-millionaire American businessman Henry Barridge, go to Ireland to spend the summer holidays with Laura Duvann, who is engaged to marry their father. However, they find out she is a wicked banshee with strong black magic powers who does not wish them well. Laura is busy cutting down trees on her estate and is also planning the destruction of the last king of the little people, or leprechauns. Tommy and Ethel take his side against their wicked future stepmother.

Cast

Notes and References

  1. Africa Film and TV Yearbook (Z Promotions, 1998), p. 18
  2. Martin Botha, South African Cinema 1896–2010, p. 171