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Office Phone: (215) Ki 6-0616 1708 Locust Phila. New York Miami gento, an Italian movie critic and scriptwriter. The original screenplay is his handiwork and he shows a sturdy appreciation for the standard stuff of mysteries the inherently frightening aspect of an inexplicably deserted room or of the dark at the top of the stairs, especially when a lone girl is climbing them. GOOD PERFORMANCE Musante would be more convincing if he were a bit less calm about things, but Suzy Kendall, as his girl friend, more than makes up for that in her agitation when she finds out she has been tabbed as the next victim. Some of the dubbing could be better and not all of the twists of the plot contribute to the tension, but it is hard to walk out in the middle of this one.

The title? It's a clue. WILLIAM COLLINS. 'Quackser Fortune' Opens New Vistas "Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bron" may well be the first feature-length movie to pay close attention to the neglected subject of horse manure. There are piles of the stuff in the streets, and the camera swoops down on each new deposit with positively copro-phagous zest. Otherwise, the film which opened Wednesday at Theater 1812 and some suburban houses is a pretty bland affair.

miliations manfully. His spirit, free and independent, is like the brave little paper flower with which he has decorated his pushcart, another symbol we see more than enough of as the movie winds its leisurely way toward some kind of ending. If you think the title is whimsical, wait till you hear how Quackser got his name. "I used to make noises like a duck when I was a baby," he tells the fascinated college girl. Quackser's good humor is tested when Dublin milk deliv- eries are The horses disappear and, with them, of course, the manure.

Quackser faces the Lleak choice of going to work in the neighborhood foundry or emigrating to America. Wilder is an ingratiating actor but can't do much more with the material here than pop his blue eyes and look lovable. Margot Kidder is the American college girl, and a peculiarly objectionable specimen she is. "Quackser" was directed by Waris Hussein, the young Indian whose first feature was "Thank You Very Much," with Sandy Dennis. WILLIAM COLLINS.

'Performance' Rolls The Stones' Jagger By WILLIAM COLLINS Of The Inquirer Staff In "Performance," rock star Mick Jagger plays the part of a rock star who has dropped out because, we are told, "he thinks his demon has abandoned him." As any Stones fan can tell you, Mick Jagger without his demon is almost no Mick Jagger at all, and the movie, which opened Wednesday at the World and Bryn Mawr, never quite makes up for the loss. While the form is that of a gangster film, the style is a frazzled mixture of Now and Then, much self-conscious camera work dipping into a rediscovered mauve decade. DISTRACTING DETAILS Recluse Jagger lives with two girls in a house that has been transformed into a pleasure dome of the perverse, with wall hangings and curtains and Moroccan bed-sheets, a mirrored ceiling and a three-sided tile bathtub. The lighting tends to overripeness. The intended effect of drugged, erotic languor is occasionally destroyed by an unhappily conceived detail a live eel slipping out of its tank, or a Moog synthesizer at which the moody Jagger, with painted lips and girlish hair, looks disastrously like Tillie the Telephone Operator.

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13th Midtown, 1409 Locust St, Philadelphia, 1413 Locust Sherry's, 146 S. 15th William Penn, 1218 Chestnut St. sssssssse ssiii il i in sin -if 6 St '(X The setting is Dublin, and Quackser Fortune is Gene a simple Irishman who pushes a cart around the city, shoveling up manure and selling it for fertilizer. He rubs it to dust between his hands and sprinkles it on win-dowb GENE WILDER and flowerbeds. Not once does anyone complain that he smells.

They can't, because this is a gently romantic movie in which Wilder is a beautiful person in the way only the lower classes can be in movies, and the manure is just a symbol for the doomed past. An American college girl takes up Quackser, as college girls abroad will do when they find something so deliciously quaint. She dallies with him, stands him up on a couple of dates and ends up being terribly nice to him in a hotxl room in what is supposed to be a tender, bittersweet gesture. Quackser suffers these hu YEARS OLD. S6.8 PROOF.

SEAGRAM DISTILLERS COMPANY, TIL Very smooth.ry special. Very Canadian. MICK JAGGER deserted by 'demon' derworld muscleman on the run from both the police and his employers. Fox has committed the indiscretion of murdering a thug who, with the aid of a couple of accomplices, had stripped" and whipped him in the movie's most notable excursion into sadism. Jagger's girls get the new lodger high on hallucinogenic mushrooms, which they cultivate in a greenhouse in the backyard.

Fox dons a wig and a robe and, as the movie progresses, looks more and more like Jim Morrison. In this state, he is told how Jagger is a "male and female man," which isn't hard to believe, but such talk naturally confuses and frustrates him as he clings to an identity that slips gradually away from him. In his delirium, he imagines Jagger as his homosexual boss, in business suit and businessman's haircut. MADNESS HIS METHOD There are glimpses of Jagger and the girls entangled on those Moroccan bedsheets, and other glimpses of them in that bathtub; and Jagger makes a brief, key speech about how the only performance that succeeds must have madness in it, which applies to rock or crime or whatever. There is no madness in this "Performance," though, only foolishness.

Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton are the girls, but the most genuinely shocking touch in the picture is the introduction of a 9-year-old girl (Laraine Wickens) who serves everybody tea. The movie was directed jointly by cinematographer Nicolas Roeg and scriptwriter Donald Cammell. Old-Style Whodunit Is 'Crystal Plumage' A certain amount of ingenuity lifts "The Bird With the Crystal Plumage" above the run-of-the-mill murder mystery. Ingenuity and a few good old-fashioned scares. The picture at the Fox is something of a challenge to people who like to solve the crime before the police do.

Ana it is a a tisfactory enough experience for those who would rather just sit back and be surprised at the end. An American writer in Rome (Tony a nte) SUZY KENDALL witnesses a struggle between a woman and a man, who is dressed in black, inside a brightly lighted modern art gallery. The woman is stabbed and the man in black escapes. The victim recovers and the police immediately connect the incident to a series of unsolved Jack-the-Ripper murders. Under questioning, the American says there was something wrong with what he saw, something that didn't fit, but he can't remember what it was.

As the movie goes on, he re-lives the scene in flashbacks, trying to pinpoint the anomalous detail. FOLLOWS INSTINCTS When he is attacked on the way home by a figure in black wielding a meat cleaver, the writer takes a personal interest in solving the crimes. While he is following his instincts, the police turn to technology; they put everything through a computer and get a profile of the murderer and resort to a voice analyzer which gives them startling i news about the taunting tele- phone calls that have been re- ceived. lne investigative process being a slow one, two more young women are murdered before our eyes. Each time, the victim has been secretly photographed.

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