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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Bank Robber
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Budget 9,200,000 USD
Box Office Collection 9,300,000 USD
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: Episode IV - A New Hope (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.
According to the specific version of the Amidah prayer that the rabbi says, it is possible to derive that he left the Amish village on a Thursday.
The opening credits are still being shown at the sixteen-minute mark.
In his autobiography, Gene Wilder says that John Wayne was offered the part that was eventually played by Harrison Ford. Wayne loved the role and was eager to work with Wilder. However, an agent tried to offer Wayne less than his usual fee and the legendary actor turned the film down. This may be true, but it is actually unlikely. By 1979, Wayne was too ill with stomach cancer to consider film work, and he died later that year from the disease.
Not the first western for Harrison Ford. He appeared in westerns when he was unknown in television, and in such films as Journey to Shiloh (1968) and A Time for Killing (1967). However, this movie would be Ford's last western until Cowboys & Aliens (2011).
"Avram: [Trying to catch a wild 'chicken'] Chicken, chicken, chicken! Chickie-chickie-chickie-chicken! Come here, [sing-songs] Avram: I don't want to hurt you, I just want to eat you. [repeats in Yiddish, 'chicken' flies away] Avram: Come here, wait! I don't want to hurt you! I just want to make you kosher!"
"[Tommy and Avram are in a saloon, where Tommy is sawing away at a huge steak, but Avram is too depressed to eat] Tommy: Now, look. You go up and change, and then we'll go together and we'll tell your people that the new rabbi's arrived. All right? Avram: I told you that I can't be a rabbi. Tommy: [Tommy hurls a piece of bread at him] Don't you tell me that. Just don't say that again. Not after what I've been through to get your goddamn ass here alive. If you hadn't have shot that man, then we'd both be dead. Do you understand that, you ignorant asshole? You do understand that? He was gonna kill you and then he was gonna kill me, am I right? When you shot that son of a bitch, that was not a sin. Then what the hell are we talking about? Avram: When those men were shooting at you, I ran to save the Torah. Tommy: So? I understand that. You're a man of God. I understand that. Avram: I wasn't thinking about God. I didn't do it because of God. I don't know one thing about God. I was thinking about a book. I cared more for a book than I did for my best friend. I don't know if you can understand that. I don't want to insult you. But do you understand what I mean? I chose a piece of paper instead of you! Tommy: But I forgive you. Avram: I know that you do. Tommy: But you're a good man! Avram: I am a good man. I am. But I'm not a rabbi. Tommy: Don't say that! Avram: Tommy, I'm not a rabbi. Tommy: Don't say that! You are a rabbi. I'm a bank robber. I'm a card player and a whoremonger. That's what I am. You are a rabbi. You can fall in the mud, you can slip on your ass, you can travel in the wrong direction. But even on your ass, even in the mud, even if you go in the wrong direction for a little while, you're still a rabbi! That's what you are!"
