Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx is a 1970 film directed by Waris Hussein

Waris Hussein

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 and written by Gabriel Walsh

Gabriel Walsh

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. It starred Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, and author.Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers...

 as the titular Quackser Fortune, an autistic Irishman

Irish people

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 who falls in love with an American

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 exchange student

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 (Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder

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) after she almost runs him over.

Selected cast

• Gene Wilder
  Gene Wilder
  Gene Wilder is an American stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter, and author.Wilder began his career on stage, making his screen debut in the film Bonnie and Clyde in 1967. His first major role was as Leopold Bloom in the 1968 film The Producers...
  
   as Quackser Fortune
• Margot Kidder
  Margot Kidder
  Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder is a Canadian-born American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Lois Lane in the four Superman movies opposite Christopher Reeve, a role that brought her to widespread recognition....
  
   as Zazel Pierce
• Eileen Colgan as Betsy Bourke
• Seamus Ford as Mr. Fortune
• May Ollis as Mrs. Fortune
• Liz Davis as Kathleen Fortune
• Caroline Tully as Vera Fortune
• David Kelly
  David Kelly (actor)
  David Kelly is an Irish actor, who has been in regular film and television work since the 1950s.-Acting career:Playing everything from Beckett to Shakespeare, he has appeared in Theatre, TV and film constantly since 1959...
  
  as Tom Maguire

Nomination

The film was nominated for Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen (WGA Award - Screen) at the Writers Guild of America, USA in 1971.