
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 (mis)adventures including being captured by Native Americans.... (Full plot summary below)
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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 (mis)adventures including being captured by Native Americans.
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| Washington PostGary ArnoldRobert Aldrich is an awesomely inappropriate choice to direct an ethnic Western comedy. Nothing in the material appears to stimulate -- or profit from -- Aldrich's erstwhile proficiency with violent or cynical entertainments. |
| VarietyVariety StaffFrisco Kid remains a series of set pieces, however, and not a cohesive film. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeRobert 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. |
| Movie MetropolisJohn J. PuccioThe Frisco Kid made me laugh several times and smile often... I'd say that makes it at least a mildly successful film and a fairly enjoyable one, too. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAbsurd Western spoof, that relies almost solely on its ethnic brand of humor to get over. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonAldrich was a man's man director; he could direct black comedy, but he had no idea how to handle the straightforward, earnest brand on display here. |
| Bangitout.comJordan HillerThe Frisco Kid is, all pratfalls and tuchus jokes aside, the quintessential "Torah "movie. |
| NewsweekJames BakerThere's no shortage of talent in The Frisco Kid, but it's the wrong talent for the wrong material. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe Frisco Kid has a certain softness at its center. The Wilder character has a sweetness, a niceness, that's interesting for the character but doesn't seem to work with this material. It's really nobody's movie. The screenplay has been around Hollywood for several years, and Aldrich seems to have taken it on as a routine assignment. |
| People MagazinePeople StaffThough Robert Aldrich can be a capable director of action yarns (The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Yard), one would never guess it after sitting through this aimless, interminable (122 minutes) mess. |