The Frisco Kid |  | Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George DiCenzo
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 6698
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Yiddish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D73403D
ISBN: 1419817108
UPC: 012569734036
EAN: 9781419817106
ASIN: B000BYA4J2
Theatrical Release Date: July 13, 1979
Release Date: February 14, 2006
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| • | It's 1850 and new rabbi Avram Belinski sets out from Philadelphia toward San Francisco. Cowpoke bandit Tom Lillard hasn't seen a rabbi before. But he knows when one needs a heap of help. And getting this tenderfoot to Frisco in one piece will cause a heap of trouble - with the law, Native Americans and a bunch of killers.Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford are one feisty team as rabbi and rescuer in thi |
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It's 1850 and new rabbi Avram Belinski sets out from Philadelphia toward San Francisco. Cowpoke bandit Tom Lillard hasn't seen a rabbi before. But he knows when one needs a heap of help. And getting this tenderfoot to Frisco in one piece will cause a heap of trouble - with the law Native Americans and a bunch of killers. Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford are one feisty team as rabbi and rescuer in this rough-'n'-ready romp that rivals Wilder's earlier Blazing Saddles in Wild West hilarity. Director Robert Aldrich is a seasoned hand at blending roughhouse and laughter as fans of his earlier The Dirty Dozen and The Longest Yard will attest. With a full posse of screen talents The Frisco Kid rides tall in the comedy saddle. Director: Robert Aldrich Starring: Gene Wilder Harrison Ford Ramon BieriRunning Time: 119 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 012569734036 Manufacturer No: 73403
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Gene Wilder takes his most unusual role, a naive 19th-century rabbi sent from his native Poland to the fledgling Jewish community in San Francisco, in this warm-hearted comic adventure. The trusting soul is easy prey for the con men and criminals who prey on the immigrants arriving in the Philadelphia port and the rabbi, beaten but unbowed, continues his trek West solo: broke, underequipped, and hopelessly lost. Harrison Ford, fresh from Star Wars, is the roguish outlaw who adopts the determined traveler and the two become unlikely friends as they make their way through one scrape after another. Wilder makes a sincere and sympathetic hero, his faith and courage seeing him through one crisis after another, and fresh-faced Ford makes an endearing scamp of a bank robber. The meandering adventure, overlong at two hours, takes its time as the duo traverses the gorgeous American countryside and end up in the bustling Barbary Coast San Francisco of the Gold Rush era. Legendary hard-edged action director Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen) brings a gentle touch and easygoing humor to this family-oriented adventure, but old habits die hard. While staying within PG parameters, Aldrich adds a little grit to the Old West fistfights and gunfights. --Sean Axmaker
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 one funny movie February 6, 2010
Michael Rawlins
the first time I saw this movie I laughed till i cried, it's a most have.
 Excellent comedic western and tribute to America January 20, 2010
Mark E. Baxter (Layton, UT United States)
I have watched and re-watched this movie for years with family and friends. This is one of the rare movies that I can watch over and over and still enjoy.
A big attraction has got to be the two stars Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder. Ford plays a good-hearted rascal as well as anyone ever has. Wilder was the master of the excessive, and to me irritating, comedic character often found in Mel Brooks movies. But in this movie the director has Wilder play a more subdued and true everyman who is confronted by challenges yet still retains his humanity and optimistic world view.
The plot centers around Wilder a Jewish rabbi in training in Poland. The Jewish synagogue in 1849 era San Francisco sends for a rabbi for their growing congregation. Wilder is a gentle doofus, a favorite of the children, but not the sharpest knife in the drawer and he is sent off to America sadly unprepared and unknowledgeable. He is robbed and beaten and then makes his way from New York to San Francisco through the charity of various groups and through the help of a bank-robbing cowboy with a heart of gold who then guides him to San Francisco.
Along the way, Wilder and then the two actors have encounters with Amish, Indians, cut-throats, and a monastic order. Some of these scenes are hilarious.
One of the themes that other reviewers leave out is how Wilder's character comes to appreciate America with its wide open spaces and open-hearted people that help Wilder out over and over. Wilder frequently praises the people and the land as they help him on his journey and there is a patriotic goodness in this aspect of the film that is sadly lacking in many modern westerns that have substituted dirt and nastiness for the true characteristics of the western settler.
The only drawback of this film that should be a family oriented movie is the language. There is frequent profanity spread throughout the move so I wouldn't allow anyone younger than a teen to see the movie unless you can find it edited. No nudity and no sex though there are frequent references to brothels etc.
Overall, one of my favorite movies and one I have waited for years to come out on DVD since my VHS wore out. 4 stars.
Frisco Kid December 23, 2009
Cheryl Baumann (Las Vegas, Nv.)
My son will love this movie for Christmas, he will be 30 and watched it as a kid and loved it, so surprise!! Still talks about it.
Cheryl
The Frisco Kid September 27, 2009
P. POAG
This is the best comedy of all time. I dicovered it when it was released in theatres years ago. It certainly can stand the test of time. Jew or gentile, it is just funny.
 Good movie, I guess September 12, 2009
Amanda M. Powell (Lenoir, NC USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this movie as a gift for my uncle, so I am not sure how good this movie is. Sorry, that I couldn't help any.
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