Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970)

Hated it
I purchased this DVD based on the numerous 5 star raviews. Usually these are valuable cources of information and quite accurate. I cannot imagine why this time it was so unreliable.

This is among the worst movies I have seen. It is unbelievably slow--pulling teeth would be more interesting to watch. Though Gene Wilder is a fine actor, this is not one of his better works. In this story he plays a horse dung street sweeper who sells the manure wherever he can. Not a bone of ambition does he have. The story centers around meeting a free-spirited American girl studying in Dublin and what happens between them.

The dialogue is boring or non-existant and the storyline pathetic.

Clearly I am a lone voice in the wilderness here, but caveat emptor before you buy it.

Gene Wilder At His Irish Best!!
Quakser Fortune(Gene Wilder)is a somewhat eccentric,uneducated humble,fertilizer merchant in Dublin Ireland when a rich,sophisicated American visitor Zazel Pierce(Margot Kidder)becomes fascinated by him when they first connect,their different lifestyles become irrelevant but they later grow tired of each other especially by Zazel's snobbish friends.Quakser then retreats to his old job of gathering horse manure to sell as fertilizer.When his cousin in the Bronx dies he leaves a small fortune for Quakser that changes his livelihood forever.This is quite an interesting,offbeat comedy/drama with Gene Wilder at his Irish best!!

A Gentle Classic Comedy
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a variety of films were made that would have little chance to exist prior to that period, and little chance for approval after that period. A good example of such a film is this gentle tale of an Irish dung collector in love, with Gene Wilder in the title role. Other usual classics from this era include "Get to Know Your Rabbit," with Orson Welles as the instructor at a school for tap-dancing magicians (also includes Katharine Ross from "The Graduate," along with Tommy Smothers and a great comic performance by John Astin), "Evil Roy Slade" (a made-for-TV parody western), "Inserts" (a rarely-seen film about the making of porn, with a strong cast), Marlon Brando's controversial erotic classic "Last Tango in Paris," the Beau Bridges film "The Landlord" (about a rich kid who buys a tenement), the French film "Get Out Your Handkerchiefs," and various others. Most are not easy to find, but are available on video or DVD, and worth seeking out.