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𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙮 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧 & 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙙 I remember we went to see this movie and loved it.  The so called "Professional Critics" at the time hated, I mean HATED it.  It was gone from the theaters quicker than Biden can remember what he was thinking~!   This is a classic.  The story is great.  A misanthropic rabbi comes to a congregation in San Francisco and get waylaid and falls into miss adventures with a seedy character "Harrison Ford".  This unlikely duo make their way to SF undergoing a number of adventures.  If you do not understand the yiddishkeit of this film, go take a look at the Marx brothers. The scene where battered Wilder sees the Amish and goes screaming in Yiddish only to discover the cross in the bible in one of the farmer's pockets and faints dead away, is worth the price of admission along.   The voting scene at the Yeshiva where only the little boy votes for Wilder invoking the older Rabbi turning his eyes to heaven and saying, "It's going to be close!" is likewise great.  This is zany Yiddish theater at its best.  Wilder, always overacting, is SUPERB as the rabbi.   Ford is merely great as the kindhearted outlaw.  The bad guys are bad, the characters they meet along the way, Schiavelli and veteran character actor Ian Wolfe are great as the Trappist monks, even Joe Kapp is great as the Mexican RR worker.  This is great watching and one of my favorite films.  Don't knock it. It's hilarious. The Frisco Kid 1979.  A rabbi from Poland travels to the United States to lead a Jewish congregation in San Francisco.  When he arrives there, he is hijacked and has to work his way across the country.   On the way he meets up with a bank robber and they form a friendship and have many miss adventures including being captured by Native Americans.  I have to say I went to see this when it came out mainly because of Harrison Ford.  He just became a super star with Star Wars a couple years before, but I left the movie a major big fan Gene Wilder. This is a really fun super roll a coaster ride through the west following the ups and down of Gene as a Polish Rabbi trying to get to his flock in San Francisco.  Enjoy the movie what what it is.   A great funny western, but with some really nasty bad guys.  When Wilder later teamed up with Richard Pryor they made for a excellent comedy partnership.   Stars:   Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri  and many other fine actors.   A bit of movie trivia. 01:  1979 marketing for the film heavily emphasizes Gene Wilder's role in the film, with little marketing of Harrison Ford's supporting role, despite Ford having been in the blockbuster Star Wars (1977) two years earlier. When The Frisco Kid was released on DVD, the cover was a blow up of Ford's face, with Wilder relegated to a small corner of the cover. 02:  One of five movies in which Gene Wilder played a man wrongly accused of committing a crime. The others being Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), Hanky Panky (1982), and See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989). 03:  The Frisco Kid (which stars Harrison Ford) has a scene in which an Orthodox Jewish man mistakenly assumes that Amish men are fellow Orthodox Jews. In Witness (1985) (also starring Harrison Ford), an Amish boy assumes that an Orthodox Jewish man is a fellow Amish man.