Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder in the western-comedy movie, ‘The Frisco Kid’. (1979)
Here’s a good one of Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder in the western-comedy movie, ‘The Frisco Kid’ back in 1979. In this American western comedy Gene Wilder plays Avram Belinski, a Polish rabbi on his way to San Francisco and Harrison Ford is Tommy Lillard, a bank robber who befriends him.
According to Gene Wilder’s autobiography, Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art, the role of Tommy Lillard was originally planned for John Wayne. John J. Puccio wrote that Wayne was initially “eager to take it on as a comic follow-up to True Grit and Rooster Cogburn. Salary concerns nixed the idea, though, and it’s questionable he would have finished the shooting, in any case, as he died shortly before The Frisco Kid opened.”
