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Name: The Frisco Kid
Released: 1979-7-6
Cast: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George Ralph DiCenzo

The Frisco Kid

PG
2h 2m
1979

54%

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Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder star as a taciturn gunslinger and a clueless immigrant rabbi traveling across the Wild West in the comic adventures of The Frisco Kid. Ranked 87th out of 88 in his rabbinical class, Avram Belinski (Wilder--Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) accepts a posting to Gold Rush-era San Francisco. Speaking little English but following a leading from God, the young rabbi sets out from Philadelphia for San Francisco, believing his destination to be a short walk. Along the way he befriends bank robber Tommy Lillard (Ford--Indiana Jones films, Star Wars films). Now, as this mismatched pair crosses the frontier, the Old West will never be the same.

Director:

Robert Aldrich

Producer:

Mace Neufeld, Howard W. Koch Jr.

Writer:

Michael Elias, Frank Shaw

Cast:

Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George Ralph DiCenzo, Leo Fuchs, Penny Peyser, William Smith, Jack Somack

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

54%

Critics Consensus: Not even a genial Gene Wilder or a dashing Harrison Ford can rescue The Frisco Kid from a monotonous procession of gently comedic sketches that never cohere into a memorable yarn.

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

A fairly pleasant time killer.

Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford are quite the duo in The Frisco Kid--it's a shame they didn't work together more. It's one of Wilder's best roles in his career, too.

A nice little ditty that feats neatly in the "mildly amusing" category.

A weakly scripted, largely unfunny comedy-western intermittently helped by Gene Wilder's then-considerable charm.

Though Robert Aldrich can be a capable director of action yarns (The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard), one would never guess it after sitting through this aimless, interminable (122 minutes) mess.

December 12, 2018

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