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The Mad Adventures of ‘Rabbi’ Jacob is a 1973 French comedy starring Louis de Funès. It involves — among so much else, and I don’t want to spoil it! — a racist French man and an Arab ...

I know Oury’s work because as a teenager I went with my mother to New York’s 68th Street Playhouse, an art house, to see a film called “The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob.” A French comedy ...

Film Movement has acquired North American rights to a quartet of awards titles — “Bent,” “Midaq Alley,” “All About Lily Chou-Chou” and “The Mad Adventures of ‘Rabbi’ Jacob ...

Forty years ago, “The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob” had French audiences doubled over in laughter. Gerard Oury’s frantic comedy of an anti-Semitic businessman who finds himself mistaken for ...

and he helped write the 1973 hit comedy film “The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob,” starring comedian Louis de Funès. In France, Rabbi Jacob is still so popular that in 2008, comedian Patrick ...

Louis de Funes is revered by many as the greatest French comedian of all time, and the festival will show one of his biggest hits, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, a slapstick classic from 1973 ...