A Touch of the Poet

A Touch of the Poet

7.5/10
2h22min
1974Drama

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An Irish tavern keeper, clinging to past glory, schemes to profit from his daughter’s romance while she plans her own future.

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Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former days as a nobleman and decorated officer in the British army during the Napoleonic wars. Impoverished now, he struts about in his uniform and plots to make money by manipulating the love of his daughter for the son of a wealthy manufacturer. His daughter sees through his façade and his chicanery and begins to plot for herself.