Darby O�Gill and the Little People - "Darby O'Gill and the Little People," feature film released in June 1959, based on H.T. Kavanagh's stories by the same name. Though "Darby O�Gill and the Little People" wasn�t very successful at the box office, its special effects were magical. Here, Walt visits with a leprechaun in his office. Walt had been pondering the notion of turning "Darby O�Gill and the Little People" into a film for about twenty years. So, when he finally was ready to do so in the late 1950s, he didn�t hold back on the effort. The special effects hold up well, even to this day, as this scene, in which Darby enchants the Little People with his fiddle playing, demonstrates.