The Frisco Kid
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✎ Suggest a correctionAvram Belinski (Wilder) arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. Belinski 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 in Pennsylvania. After saving up enough money to buy a horse and some supplies, he is befriended and looked after by a stranger named Tommy Lillard.
Credits
- Directed by
- Robert Aldrich
- Written by
- Michael Elias
- Cast
- Harrison Ford, Gene Wilder, David Bradley, Vincent Schiavelli, Ian Wolfe, Frank De Vol, Allan Rich, William Smith, George DiCenzo, Clyde Kusatsu, Val Bisoglio, Leo Fuchs, Penny Peyser, Ramon Bieri, Steffen Zacharias, Joe Kapp, Rolfe Sedan
- Produced by
- Mace Neufeld
- Cinematography
- Robert B. Hauser
- Music
- Frank De Vol
Complete catalog record
Stars Gene Wilder as a young Polish rabbi sent to America in 1850 to become the spiritual leader of a congregation in San Francisco. Tells how he is both aided and hampered by a kind-hearted bank robber, played by Harrison Ford.
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- A-V Online (National Information Center for Educational Media). CD-ROM database of educational and documentary media, compiled and maintained by the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM). — title, creator, length, format, sound, description
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — catalog record
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- Wikidata · Q1305081 ↗ — year, length, color, country, genre, credits
- 16mm Filmography editors — creator
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