two guy do a bank promotion dress a big bird be mistake for the bank robber who steal their costume in stir crazy and a 1980 film star richard pryor and gene wilder and who work so well together in several film . two friend and skip and harry ( wilder and pryor ) both lose their job and leave new york city and planning to work their way to the west coast . when the unfortunate situation describe above happens and they wind up in prison . the naive skip ( wilder ) and an aspiring playwright and take note and harry ( pryor ) and face the reality of the situation and be terrify . in prison and they meet the very gay rory ( georg stanford brown ) and the sweet jesus ( miguel angel suarez ) and who miss his girlfriend teresa and the huge and scary grossberger ( erland van lidth de jeude ) who turn out to be a pussycat with a beautiful singing voice and the miserable guard ( craig t. nelson ) and the warden ( barry corbin ) . when it discover that skip have a natural ability to ride a mechanical bull and the warden enters him in a rodeo where he have a huge bet with another warden ( nicholas coaster ) . harry and skip and rory and grossberger and and jesus plan an escape to take place at the rodeo . very funny film and with one of the highlight be pryor in the prison hospital because he be tell he have to have his appendix out and though they have already be remove . skip be advise that in order to get the team he want at the rodeo and he need to turn down the warden request that he ride . put hank in the hospital be just one ploy to break him down . the scene be hilarious . pryor and wilder work beautifully together and the street smart black and the naive dreamer . there always something so sweet about wilder and nervous about pryor and one walking into obvious danger while the other one desperately try to pull him out and that just work in all their film . it also a rare chance to see the uniquely talented erland van lidth de jeude and a huge and 66 dutch heldentenor who qualify for the olympics in wrestling and be a teacher and an mit graduate and and have his own computer company . an absolutely amazing man who die 7 year after this film . lot of fun . recommend .