The Frisco Kid

The Frisco Kid

Infobox Film | name = The Frisco Kid


caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Robert Aldrich
producer = Mace Neufeld
writer = Michael Elias
Frank Shaw
starring = Gene Wilder
Harrison Ford
Ramon Bieri
Val Bisoglio
George DiCenzo
music = Frank De Vol
cinematography = Robert B. Hauser
editing = Jack Horger
Irving Rosenblum
Maury Winetrobe
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
released = July 13, 1979
runtime = 122 min.
country = United States
language = English
budget =
gross = $9,346,177 (USA)
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0079180

"The Frisco Kid" is a 1979 movie directed by Robert Aldrich. The movie is a Western comedy featuring Gene Wilder as Avram Belinski, a Polish rabbi who is traveling to San Francisco, and Harrison Ford as a bank robber who befriends him.

Plot

Rabbi Avram Belinski arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. He has with him a Torah scroll for the San Francisco synagogue. Avram, an innocent, trusting and inexperienced traveler, falls in with three con men who trick him into helping pay for a wagon and supplies to go west, then leave him and most of his belongings scattered along a deserted road.

Avram is determined to make it to San Francisco. He fends for himself on foot for a while, spends a little time with some Pennsylvania Dutch (whom he takes for Jews at first), and manages to find work on the railroad. While trying to spear fish in a stream (to no avail), he is befriended and fed by a stranger on horseback named Tommy Lillard (Ford). They travel together, make it through the snowy mountains, experience Native American customs and hospitality, and learn a little about each other's culture:

Unfortunately, it turns out Tommy is a bank robber by profession, not only problematic for Avram from a moral point of view, but problematic for Tommy when he robs a bank on a Friday, then finds that Avram (an orthodox Jew) does not ride on the Sabbath—even with a posse on his tail. They remain together somehow, meet and defeat the villains who originally robbed and beat Avram in Philadelphia, and arrive in San Francisco. Avram then must deal with the changes his journey has wrought in his faith and his purpose in life.

Cast

*Gene Wilder .... Avram Belinski
*Harrison Ford .... Tommy Lillard
*Ramon Bieri .... Mr. Jones
*Val Bisoglio .... Chief Gray Cloud
*George DiCenzo .... Darryl Diggs (as George Ralph DiCenzo)
*Leo Fuchs .... Chief rabbi
*Penny Peyser .... Rosalie Bender
*William Smith .... Matt Diggs
*Jack Somack .... Samuel Bender
*Beege Barkette .... Sarah Mindl Bender
*Shay Duffin .... O'Leary
*Walter Janovitz .... Old Amish man (as Walter Janowitz)
*Joe Kapp .... Monterano
*Clyde Kusatsu .... Mr. Ping (railroad work crew)
*Clifford A. Pellow .... Mr. Daniels (as Cliff Pellow)

Trivia

*According to Gene Wilder's autobiography, the Tommy role, played by Harrison Ford, was originally planned for John Wayne.
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External links

*imdb title|id=0079180|title=The Frisco Kid


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