Attracting around 7.2 million cinema-goers in France alone, Les Aventures de
Rabbi Jacob was by far the most popular film to be released in France in 1973... [More...]
In a similar vein to Oury’s phenomenally successful 1966 film La Grande vadrouille,
L’As des as is a lavish action-comedy set at the time of the Third Reich... [More...]
Director Gérard Oury is best known for his comic gems of the 1960s and 1970s –
films such as La Grande
vadrouille (1966) and
Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973) which were massive box office hits and
have... [More...]
The deadly sin of avarice is the subject of this zany Gérard Oury comedy.
Molière it certainly isn’t but Oury manages at least to provide a respectable eighty
minutes of good family entertainment... [More...]
Directed by Gérard Oury, scripted by Francis Veber and starring the eternally magnificent
Philippe Noiret, Fantôme avec chauffeur could have been one of the best French
comic films of the 1990s... [More...]
One of the most contentious issues in the world of cinema is the justification (or lack
thereof) for the remake. Since no producer in his right mind would consider remaking
a bad film... [More...]
