The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

Original title: Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob

1973
U
1h 40m

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7.4/10

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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)

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Slapstick Adventure Comedy

A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

15K

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

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Trivia
The movie was released on October 18th 1973, during Yom Kippur War between Israel and Arab countries. That very day, the press attaché's wife hijacked a plane to prevent the movie from being released, claiming that the movie was pro-Israeli. She eventually was shot by police marksmen.

Goofs
Fares and his thugs are not really speaking Arabic but mumbling something instead.

Quotes
Mohamed Larbi Slimane: The revolution is like a bicycle, when it stops it falls.

Alternate versions
In the english dubbed version, the last line is changed From, "That's alright sir, we'll take you anyway" to "That's alright sir, nobody's Perfect". Then in the ending credits, they thank Billy Wilder for the last line, which is a steal from the last line from "Some Like It Hot".

Connections
Featured in Louis de Funès ou Le pouvoir de faire rire (2003)

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This is one of the best comedies in the French cin...

This is one of the best comedies in the French cinema. Louis de Funes plays the role of Victor Pivert, an industrialist with a Napoleonic complex and a tendency for racist viewpoints, who inadvertantly teams up with, Mohamed Larbi Slimane, an exiled Arab political oposition candidate who is on the run from hired assassins in Paris. Pivert and Slimane masquerade as two Jewish rabbis in order to save their lives. What follows are hillarious scenes taking place in the Jewish section of Paris as well as in the surrounding areas. Watch out for the incredible mime scenes by Louis de Funes at the gas station and in the Orly airport.