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Gabriel Walsh (writer)
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Release Date:
2 August 1973 (Hungary) more
Tagline:
Happiness is a Quackser Fortune!
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In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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A long-forgotten odd little treasure more (8 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Gene Wilder | ... | Quackser Fortune |
 | Margot Kidder | ... | Zazel |
 | Eileen Colgan | ... | Betsy Bourke |
| May Ollis | ... | Mrs. Fortune |
| Seamus Forde | ... | Mr. Fortune |
 | David Kelly | ... | Maguire |
| Danny Cummins | ... | Donal |
| Liz Davis | ... | Kathleen Fortune |
| Tony Doyle | ... | Mike |
| Caroline Tully | ... | Vera Fortune |
| John Kelly | ... | Tim |
| Paul Murphy | ... | Damien |
| Brendan Matthews | ... | Milk Depot Attendant |
| David Hogarty | ... | David |
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Fun Loving
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USA:90 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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UK:A | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:7 | USA:PG | USA:R (original rating)
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Jean Renoir was considered to direct. more
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Quackser Fortune:
You learnin' a lot at Trinity?
Zazel:
Well, Dublin has a very rich history. For instance, did you know that Jonathan Swift wrote "Gulliver's Travels" here and that Handel's Messiah had its first premiere here.
Quackser Fortune:
How much did they charge you for that?
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This is a really odd and somehow compelling movie. Gene Wilder is an independent and none-too-bright guy in a working class Dublin family. He does quite a good job in the role. I never much liked him away from Mel Brooks, but I have to admit he was just right in this part. I'm no expert on the working class Dublin dialects, but he fooled my ear. I couldn't even tell it was his voice!
Anyway, Wilder doesn't want to spend his life working in a factory like his dad, so he creates a profession for himself. He follows the horse-drawn delivery wagons, shovels up the horse-dropping from the streets, and resells it from a pushcart, as fertilizer. ("Get your fresh dung"!) He loves this, the city loves him for it, and he is generally loved by everyone he meets along the way.
The problem is that the modern world is encroaching on the world he has built for himself; the horses are going to be shipped off to unpleasant fates, and Wilder has no skills to find another profession. He can't even read or write.
Margot Kidder is the love interest of sorts, an adventurous American college student, and she was really college age (21) at the time it was filmed in Dublin, nearly a decade before she hit the big time as Lois Lane. She was very beautiful. Her character gradually seduces Quackser, and he thinks it's love. For her it's a frolic, which she regrets by the time they actually sleep together.
Just when things look bleakest for Quackser, without job or girl, there is a deus ex machina happy ending which spoiled for me an otherwise realistic and bittersweet movie.