Cinema: Strictly Kosher

THE MAD ADVENTURES OF "RABBI" JACOB

Directed by GÉRARD OURY Screenplay by GÉRARD OURY and DANIELLE THOMPSON

In a burst of rabid optimism common to their species, the Stateside distributors of this perishable French farce report that the movie contains "1,500 separate gags." How did such a statistic turn up? Did 20th Century-Fox survey theaters in France, where The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob has been doing the kind of business that virtually subsidizes an entire industry? Maybe the director supplied the eager exhibitors with a laugh count made on the metric system and an error was made in the conversion. Maybe something...

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