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Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx

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Beautiful sleeper of a film featuring two excellent leading performances and fine photography of Dublin. Margot Kidder and Gene Wilder make an offbeat pair and work very well together. Kidder is stunningly beautiful in her first leading role, almost ten years before her success as Lois Lane. Wilder is totally believable as Quackser -- watch this movie after "Young Frankenstein" and you'll see the enormous range of which this actor is capable. Viewers expecting Mel Brooks-type humor will be disappointed -- "Quackser"'s humor grows from the differences between the two lovers' backgrounds. Warm, simple and sad, "Quackser" also delivers a gentle message about nonconformity. A highly original love story worth adding to your collection.

this film brings back fond memories to me for it was as a fourteen year old that i watched it being filmed in the ivy market in dublin i had never even heard of gene wilder but to see him dancing around like a man possessed made me laught so much it was a number of years later when i saw the movie it was so enjoyable sadley the dublin it depicted no longer excites i would recommend this film to any one from three to onehundred and three i have looked for this film in every video shop in dublin so it was a great joy to find this site i would like finaly to say to every out there get this film on dvd it will be the best money you will spend this millennium or any other millennium

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!!

The previous Amazon reviewers have given this five stars. QUACKSER FORTUNE is not one of the greatest movies of all time, and not one of the near-greatest. But it's a solid film, worth seeing. The two main characters are three-dimensional, for a change. Both Kidder and Wilder are wonderful in their roles. The picture drags too much; some good editing would have helped. Also there is a bit too much of -- how can I say it? -- reverse condescension. The Irish are a bit "quaint," which endears them to American audiences, I suppose, and also supplies a bit of distance. If this film were set in the US, we'd see two rather flaky people -- a do-it-alone selfish Wilder, and a silly college student Kidder. So it wouldn't work here. But set in Dublin, the trick is pulled off. Bottom line: a solid three-star film, each star standing for "pleasant."

To see Gene Wilder yelling "Fresh dung!" to a crowd of people maybe strange at first but you get used to its unique and quirky style.

"What's your name," asks Zazel. "Quackser," he says. "Quackser?!" "Ya. Me mother use to say I make little duck sounds when me was a baby."

Anybody out there find it strange that Gene Wilder is playing a fertilizer salesman who is in love with a somewhat ditzy intellectual played by Margot Kidder. And the strange hing is that it works! I loved this movie when I first saw it and still love it today simply because of its simplicity. Zazel finds her fortune (no pun intended) in Quackser and he sets the horses free. Beautiful! See it and you won't be disappointed.

Of course it was funny and good. My only problem with the DVD is that it is edited.
The entire beginning of the movie is missing. The movie should start with Quackser
going to work at his father's factory. This is where he finds out that he is not
cut out to do factory work. He transitions from factory work to self employed.
In this edited version, you never know why he chose his line of work. I would like
the full version instead of the edited version. Too bad I didn't know that I was
buying an edited version.

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.

Perhaps just me, but I thought it was a tad slow moving. Not the typical Gene Wilder form. Worth watching, but not enough to buy a copy. Rent it if you can.

Not one of Gene Wilders best movies.Not a bad story but with Wilder as star you expect more of a comedy that this movie doesn't have

I've always had a soft spot for Gene Wilder since I was 10 years of age and saw him as Willy Wonka at a grand old theater in Pittsburgh, Pa. After reading about "Quakser", I decided I needed to add it to my collection of Gene Wilder dvd's and I'm so happy I did. Having spent time in Ireland, and Dublin specifically, I truly felt nostalgic for the country and it's people while viewing this quaint and seemingly simple tale. Gene almost has the brogue correct and in fact his character reminded me of a few of the agricultural lads I came to know from Corkscrew Hill. This is not epic film legend stuff here, but a tender story with a softer character for Gene. I was just warm all over by the films end. If you want an easy film to enjoy, spend a short afternoon snuggled on the couch on a cool rainy day and see this one.