Best Louis de Funes comedies?

[Lenona]

Since you can't tell, at a glance, which are most popular or
critically acclaimed from looking at this list, I'm asking here.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000086/

Granted, there IS this list, but I don't know whose opinions they are.

http://allmovie.com/artist/louis-de-funs-17728/filmography

The only movie I ever saw of his was the 1971 "Delusions of Grandeur."

Someone once said that as a comic actor, he was "as close to Donald
Duck as a human being can get."

Lenona.

[MichaelW]

I love Louis De funes, here are some of the favorites among those that i
have seen:
1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060474/ ( La Grande Vadrouille, 1966) set in
WWII
2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057967/ (Le corniaud, 1965) road movie
Rome-Paris
3. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074103/ (L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976) Making
fun of french cuisine culture
4. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069747/ (Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob, 1973)
making fun of jews and arabs
5. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067108/ (La folie de grandeurs, 1971) Set in
15'th century spain
6. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064425/ (Hibernautus, 1969) comedy about
cryogenics.

I saw the gendarme movies, but i thought they were rather dull. Also,
l'homme de Orchestre was not that great. The fantomas movies were not my cup
of tea either. But if you have a look at some of those that i lsited above,
i think you will be struck by how varied they are, and how different the
setting is.

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[Sol L. Siegel]

"MichaelW" <michaelh...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:hngsbf$7fp$1...@news.eternal-september.org:

> I love Louis De funes, here are some of the favorites among those that
> i have seen:

> [...]

> 4. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069747/ (Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob,
> 1973) making fun of jews and arabs

...and spy movies in general.

AFAIK, it's the only de Funes to go into general distribution in the US,
and IIRC it flopped at first. But later on it played for months at a
mid-sized second-run house in a Jewish neighborhood here, to packed
houses on weekend nights, who rolled on the floor (me included) and
didn't give a damn about the subtitles.

--
- Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA

[Jesper Lauridsen]

On 2010-03-13, MichaelW <michaelh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I love Louis De funes, here are some of the favorites among those that i
> have seen:
> 1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060474/ ( La Grande Vadrouille, 1966) set in
> WWII
> 2. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057967/ (Le corniaud, 1965) road movie
> Rome-Paris
> 3. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074103/ (L'Aile ou la cuisse, 1976) Making
> fun of french cuisine culture
> 4. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069747/ (Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob, 1973)
> making fun of jews and arabs
> 5. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067108/ (La folie de grandeurs, 1971) Set in
> 15'th century spain
> 6. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064425/ (Hibernautus, 1969) comedy about
> cryogenics.

Don't forget "Oscar" (1967)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062083/

Later remade starring Sylvester Stallone!

[Dave in Toronto]

I've only seen him in these two:

ttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047328/
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054676/
The Beautiful American

Liked him in both. I always thought he would have made a great
Inspector Clouseau - pity it never happened.

Dave in Toronto

[Lenona]

Thanks to everyone!

[Sol L. Siegel]

Jesper Lauridsen <rors...@sorrystofanet.dk> wrote in
news:hob54p$7do$1...@news.eternal-september.org:

> Don't forget "Oscar" (1967)
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062083/
>
> Later remade starring Sylvester Stallone!

...and directed by John Landis. One of the few movies I've ever seen that
I knew was going to be a stinker from the opening shot - in which no actors
appear or dialog is heard.