In this comedy western, Harrison Ford plays Tommy Lillard, a fairly gentle and polite Old West outlaw whose life takes an unexpected turn when he meets Avram Belinski (Gene Wilder), a rabbi making his way from Poland to San Francisco where a new congregation and a new bride await him. But getting there won't be easy. Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) directs a film that didn't do all that well at the box office in 1979 but found appreciative fans in later years. Among them, writer and podcaster Jordan Hoffman, who grew up in a house where a VHS copy of the film was a treasured possession. Jordan joins us to talk about the film's representation of Judaism, '70s depictions of Native Americans, and more.
Looking for more Jordan Hoffman? You can hear him on Starlog's podcast Lodestar and on Filmspotting SVU, which he co-hosts with friend of the show Matt Singer.