The Frisco Kid

For the 1935 Western film starring James Cagney, see Frisco Kid.

The Frisco Kid
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRobert Aldrich
Written by
  • Michael Elias
  • Frank Shaw
  • Gene Wilder (uncredited)[1]
Produced byMace Neufeld
Starring
CinematographyRobert B. Hauser
Edited by
Music byFrank De Vol
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • July 13, 1979 (1979-07-13)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages
Budget$9.2 million[2]
Box office$9.3 million[3]

The Frisco Kid is a 1979 American Western comedy film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Gene Wilder as Avram Belinski, a Polish rabbi who is traveling to San Francisco, and Harrison Ford as a bank robber who befriends him.

  1. ^ GENE WILDER: A RABBI AT HOME ON THE RANGE: FROM LOCATION Warga, Wayne. Los Angeles Times 24 Dec 1978: 45.
  2. ^ Silver, Alain and James Ursini, Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich?, Limelight, 1995, p. 308.
  3. ^ "The Frisco Kid (1979)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 22, 2016.