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05/24/03
The Frisco Kid (1979)
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Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 7
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: In Robert Aldrich's hysterical comedic Western THE FRISCO KID, a sweetly innocent Polish rabbi, Avram Belinsky (Gene Wilder), travels through 1850s America toward his new congregation and wife in San Francisco. Along the way, he forms... [More]
Starring: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Penny Peyser
Director: Robert Aldrich
Reviews for The Frisco Kid
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Absurd Western spoof, that relies almost solely on its ethnic brand of humor to get over.
07/02/07
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05/26/06
The Frisco Kid made me laugh several times and smile often... I'd say that makes it at least a mildly successful film and a fairly enjoyable one, too.
02/13/06
Robert Aldrich's penultimate film is an easygoing work of some considerable charm that relies far too much on ethnic humor to sit quite as comfortably as it might like.
06/15/05
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05/09/05
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The Frisco Kid works thanks to Gene Wilder's jaunty, sweet and convincing triumph of comic bravado.
01/27/04
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