After The Fox
"A merry mixture of surefire slapstick ingredients." -L.A. Herald-Examiner
This wildly funny farce gives the comic genius of Peter Sellers free reign as he assumes several wacky personalities, each one funnier than the last! Superb direction by Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) and a sparkling original script by Neil Simon (The Goodbye Girl) make After the Fox an absolute "must-see" (Leonard Maltin)!
Millions of dollars worth of gold bullion is on its way from Cairo to an unknown Italian destination. There is only one criminal mastermind capable of stealing it: Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers), also known as "the Fox." Aldo devises the perfect plan to seize the gold: Posing as a flamboyant film director, he casts an aging, egotistical film star (Victor Mature) and his own voluptuous sister (Britt Ekland) in a fake film about a gold theft! But the action really heats up when the boat with the real gold arrives.
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Surpise!! - KamenRider
every so often you come across a film you take a chance on and it pay off big! This was one for me - I really liked all aspects of this film. The soundtrack still leaves me humming the, " After the Fox," tune. Victor Mature who plays - Tony Powell really does steal the show. Peter Sellers plays the fox who hatches a plot to land a boat load of gold stolen from a heist in Cairo on Italian shore.Reasonably funny - MovieLover
This is a reasonably funny movie with a fine cast, not all that well directed by De Sica with a funny performance by Victor Mature.
But of course the movie is all about Peter Sellers, in a variation of his Pink Panther role.
We see Sellers not at his best but good enough.
And a good enough Sellers is worth his weight in gold (!!).
A good enough Sellers is worth way way more than most actors & actresses at their supposed best.
He carries the film.Funny Sellers Farce - The_Cunninghams
"After the Fox" succeeds on so many levels. It is equal bits caper film, slapstick, and filmmaking satire. It also allows Peter Sellers' fertile comic mind to run free as a master criminal masquerading as an Italian neo-realist filmmaker. Good supporting turns are given here by Victor Mature as a vain American movie star and Martin Balsam as Mature's exasperated agent. Britt Ekland, Sellers' wife at the time, is good as Sellers' incorrigible sister. Director Vittorio De Sica makes good use of the Italian locales and peoples the film with authentic locals. I was surprised that this film was scripted by Neil Simon because alot of his work is topheavy with verbal gags but this film is equally weighted with the visual and verbal jokes. A wonderful entry in the Peter Sellers canon.
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Surpise!! - KamenRider
every so often you come across a film you take a chance on and it pay off big! This was one for me - I really liked all aspects of this film. The soundtrack still leaves me humming the, " After the Fox," tune. Victor Mature who plays - Tony Powell really ...Reasonably funny - MovieLover
This is a reasonably funny movie with a fine cast, not all that well directed by De Sica with a funny performance by Victor Mature.
But of course the movie is all about Peter Sellers, in a variation of his Pink Panther role.
We see Sellers not ...Funny Sellers Farce - The_Cunninghams
"After the Fox" succeeds on so many levels. It is equal bits caper film, slapstick, and filmmaking satire. It also allows Peter Sellers' fertile comic mind to run free as a master criminal masquerading as an Italian neo-realist filmmaker. Good supporting turns ...