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The Frisco Kid

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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... 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 an uneasy alliance with an inept bank robber, Tommy (Harrison Ford). As Avram teaches Tommy about the Torah, Tommy instructs Avram on how to handle a gun, and the two cut a meandering, pratfall-filled path across the wild West, encountering Indians, settlers, and merciless outlaws. Aldrich (TOO LATE THE HERO, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?), a master of the penetrating psychodrama, the rousing war saga, and the icy, violent noir, here slips the standard Western concoction a dizzying, hilarious mickey of slapstick humor with his two feckless protagonists, played with gusto and perfect timing by Wilder and Ford. [More]

Starring: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Penny Peyser

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

Director: Robert Aldrich

Director: Robert Aldrich
Screenwriter: Michael Elias, Frank Shaw
Producer: Mace Neufeld
Composer: Frank DeVol

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05/24/03
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Absurd Western spoof, that relies almost solely on its ethnic brand of humor to get over.

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07/02/07
Dennis Schwartz
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Aldrich's film is a timeless classic with a bevy of super performances.

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03/03/06
Clint Morris
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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.

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06/23/05
Emanuel Levy
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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.

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Ken Hanke
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05/09/05
Vincent Canby
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Cute but forgettable Western comedy.

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02/17/05
Rob Thomas
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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
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Ethnic comedy-western with good Wilder-Ford chemistry

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10/23/04
Steve Crum
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05/28/04
Carol Cling
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The Frisco Kid works thanks to Gene Wilder's jaunty, sweet and convincing triumph of comic bravado.

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01/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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Funny, it's not. Sometimes stereotypically offensive, it is.

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11/29/03
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Dave Kehr
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