Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
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Cast & Crew
Waris Hussein
Gene Wilder
Margot Kidder
Eileen Colgan
Seamus Forde
May Ollis
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Synopsis
Instead of working in the local foundry like his father, Quackser Fortune earns a living in Dublin by collecting horse manure and selling it to housewives for their gardens. He carries on an affair with Betsy Bourke, one of his customers, until he meets and immediately falls in love with Zazel Pierce, a wealthy American student at Trinity College. She begins to instruct him on Dublin's history and then invites Quackser to a dress ball; once there, however, she ignores him in favor of her more affluent and sophisticated classmates. The students' taunting of Quackser results in a scuffle, but he manages to escape with Zazel to an elegant hotel. She completes her seduction of him and leaves during the night. In the morning, Quackser goes to her room at Trinity only to find that she has moved out. Quackser's more immediate concern, however, is a new city ordinance which bans horses from the streets of Dublin, thereby ruining his livelihood. Dejected, he releases the horses into the city's streets to prevent them from being taken to the glue factory and then goes on a drinking spree. His luck changes when he learns that a distant cousin in the Bronx in New York has died and left him over £200; Quackser purchases a bus and uses it to give historical tours of Dublin.
Director
Waris Hussein
Cast
Gene Wilder
Margot Kidder
Eileen Colgan
Seamus Forde
May Ollis
Liz Davis
Caroline Tully
Paul Murphy
Dave Kelly
Tony Doyle
John Kelly
Liam Sweeney
Robert Somerset
Danny Cummins
Julie Hamilton
Cecil Sheehan
Charles Byrne
Brendan Mathews
Robert Garrickford
Lillian Rapple
Jeremy Jones
John Hoey
Martin Crosbie
Marjorie Mchenry
Patrick Smyth
David Hogarty
Crew
Bill Blunden
David Campling
Shura Cohen
John H. Cushingham
Michael Dress
Herbert Dufine
Ferdinand Fairfax
Sidney Glazier
Mel Howard
John Ireland
Barrie Melrose
Tommy Reilly
Liam Saurin
Herbert Smith
Hugh Strain
Gilbert Taylor
Gabriel Walsh
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Filmed on location in Dublin.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1970
Released in United States 1970
