Robert Aldrich returns to the western-spoof genre he'd previously explored in Four for Texas with The Frisco Kid. Gene Wilder plays Polish rabbi Avram Belinsky, who intends to set up a congregation in San Francisco. Eminently unsuited for life in the Old West, poor Avram is victimized by everyone with whom he comes in contact. Salvation arrives in the unlikely form of taciturn bank robber Tommy (Harrison Ford). Incredibly, Tommy takes a liking to the feckless Avram, and together the two men
embark on a series of seriocomic adventures. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Robert Aldrich's penultimate film is an easygoing work of some considerable charm that relies far too much on ethnic humor to sit quite as comfortably as it might like.
So what do you think? Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder? good action flick combination? good 'Indy/Star Wars' mixed with the Mel Brooks regular? haha well I didn't believe it either but this is the first time I heard that these classic stars were teamed together in a flick, talk about unusual double team!This is your
charming gentle and good natured Wilder film with plenty of silly laughs and visual gags plus allot of heart with a nice happy ending to make you feel good :)I can't really say anything bad about this film as it doesn't take itself seriously and is so good natured, just like Wilder himself, it just makes you smile. Wilder the Polish Rabbi and Indy err I mean Ford is the dashing scoundrel of a bank robber who are both pitted together on a trip to Californian in the old west whilst avoiding the law. The plot is very similar to other films with Wilder as again he is wrongly accused/mistaken for a crime he didn't commit in this film and thus allot of wide eyed lunacy occurs heheCan't go wrong with Gene Wilder you really can't, yes the film is soppy but its just classic golden comedy from a master.
This isn't a very well known comedy, but it's very funny and it was interesting to see Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford working together in a movie. If you like either of them, I recommend seeing this movie, it's fun.
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