The Frisco Kid

Genre: western, comedy

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Robert Aldrich

Credits: Cast: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford

Description: Avram 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.

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