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. 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, the brothers Matt and Darryl Diggs and their partner Mr. Jones, who trick him into... helping pay for a wagon and supplies to go west, then brutally rob him and leave him and most of his belongings scattered along a deserted road. Still determined to make it to San Francisco, Avram fends for himself on foot for a while, spends a little time with some Pennsylvania Dutch , and manages to find work on the railroad. On his way, he is befriended and looked after by a stranger named Tommy Lillard , a bank robber with a soft heart who is moved by Avram's helplessness and frank personality, despite the trouble it occasionally gives him.
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| Release date: | July 13, 1979 |
| Directed by: | Robert Aldrich |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 122 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mace Neufeld |
| Music by: | Frank De Vol |
| Genre: | Western, Comedy |