The Frisco Kid

The Frisco Kid (1979)

Genres - Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western  |   Sub-Genres - Buddy Film, Comedy Western  |   Release Date - Jul 6, 1979 (USA - Limited), Jul 13, 1979 (USA - Unknown), Jul 13, 1979 (USA)  |   Run Time - 122 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - PG
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Robert Aldrich returns to the western-spoof genre he'd previously explored in Four for Texas with The Frisco Kid. Gene Wilder plays Polish rabbi Avram Belinsky, who intends to set up a congregation in San Francisco. Eminently unsuited for life in the Old West, poor Avram is victimized by everyone with whom he comes in contact. Salvation arrives in the unlikely form of taciturn bank robber Tommy (Harrison Ford). Incredibly, Tommy takes a liking to the feckless Avram, and together the two men embark on a series of seriocomic adventures.

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bank, culture [social culture], friendship, frontier, gold-rush, Native-American, Rabbi, robbery