After the Fox | Martin Balsam, Lydia Brazzi | So after the fox, after the fox, off to the hunt...

After the Fox | Martin Balsam, Lydia Brazzi | Almost too funny

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After the Fox

	After the Fox Martin Balsam, Lydia Brazzi MGM (Video & DVD), 2002 average customer review:based on 36 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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 Afterthe 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 (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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So after the fox, after the fox, off to the hunt with chains and locks

Latter films with Peter Sellers were minimal on story, but After the Fox is an incredibly funny film with wit and humor, gags and a really great cast. Sellers plays Aldo Venucci who takes on the task of smuggling the Gold of Cairo into Italy. This movie is terrific, written by Neil Simon and directed by Vittorrio DeSica, it's a parody of stereotypic italian pics with lots of scenes, scenarios and sight gags to keep you laughing. Music and title song written by Burt Bacharach. Victor Mature steals scene after scene as the over the hill Tony Powell who's refusing to give in to the reality of his age. Martin Balsam as his agent has quite a few funny scenes for being Mature's straight man and that's not taking anything away from Sellers or Tamaroff. One of the funniest scenes Sellers and Maria Gazia Buccella (whoa what a babe) meeting in an Italian restaurant and I won't say anything more. As film critic Mario Stavoli said "Bravo, bravo, it's brilliant, what depth, what meaning, I cried, I cried like a baby...."

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Almost too funny

I've always been a Peter Sellers fan; this movie is almost too funny. It features several running gags in Sellers previous movies and the multiple personalities with amazing transformations created by Sellers. The plot of the movie involves hiding a crime in plain sight. Surrounding the plot is a spoof of 1960's era Italian art house movies including one of its leading directors, Vittorio de Sica. Victor Mature plays the over the hill Hollywood actor with brilliant self parody, Britt Eklund plays Seller's star struck younger sister who "never misses" with the thrown crockery during their spats. Martin Balsam plays the hard boiled Hollywood agent.

One of the funniest bit parts in the movie has Sellers slipping into a restaurant with a group of tourists and planning the crime with Akim Tamaroff playing ventriloquist at an adjoining table while Maria Grazia Buccella, the Miss Italy 1959, plays his live sock puppet with Sellers.

I loved it.

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Fabulous!

Prolly my favorite Peter Sellers movie - After the Fox is clever, witty and well-acted. The only draw-back is it's somewhat lame ending. Sellers shines as Aldo "The Fox" but I do believe that Victor Mature steals the film - what a hoot!

The Best Bambozzles Are Simple and Direct.

And fun. There must be lots of fun. If a film director came to your tiny forgotten town and shouted that he needed the entire community as his extras, what would you do? Everyone wants their moment of fame, and that means everyone. So what, you never heard of him. This man is a genius. Aldo Vanucci, alias The Fox, counts on this to carry out his plan to recover stolen gold. With the help of The Fox's gang and his sister who wants to be an actress, two confederates arrange for delivery of the stolen gold during the filming. Of course nothing goes as planned, or so we're led to believe. Peter Sellers is the thief with a tender heart for his family. Martin Balsam, Akim Tamiroff and Britt Eklund pull off great performances. Lydia Brazzi is gorgeous. Victor Mature (that blinding smile!) is the scene stealer starring as the aging heart throb who refuses to give in to the inevitable. Even the director, Vittorio De Sica, gets in on the acting-he's in one of my favorite scenes. This film is over-the-top comedy that will keep you giggling throughout with subtle jokes that poke fun at life, people, and their need to succeed. This is a sterling example of real comedy and all types of actors at their best.

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A Good Comedy Movie

Aldo Vanucci sits in an Italian prison. His crime?, he is a thief, and a very good one at that. He's doing his time until his friends show up and share with him that things are not going too good at home. Furious, he vows to escape and even tells the precise time he plans to leave the heavily guarded prison. The day comes, and sure enough, "The Fox" as he is known as by his countrymen, makes a sophisticated (did I spell that right?) escape right under the noses of the prison guards. Free, he makes his way home, only to find his mother running a bingo parlor for her income. So Aldo devises a plan, a plan to steal a large shipment of gold known as THE GOLD OF CAIRO. He, along with his crooked buddies, steal motion picture equipment, and head to a small village where they plan on having the gold shipped in and then load it onto a truck. But, a huge ship coming into a small port will of course raise eyebrows, so Aldo disquises himself as a famous director, and goes throughout the village promising all of the citizens a part in his picture. Soon hordes of villagers show up and even the town's police chief gets in on the act. Aldo even finds a famous Italian actor (played superbly by Victor Mature), and lures him into believing the scam. But will he succeed? I'm not telling, you'll have to see the movie yourself. But I will tell you that if you enjoy a decent comedy, one with action, suspense, and superb cinematography, you'll want to own this fine movie. One of the comical aspects of the movie is how the police eliminate their list of high profile suspects. One of them, is having eye problems, he goes into rob what he thinks is a bank, but it's not, it's a police station. Another one is so fat that after he robs the bank, he cannot make it back out the door.
This can be a movie the whole family or someone by themselves can enjoy. Get the popcorn, and cola, (for me its Chocolate covered almonds and cola), sit back and enjoy this delightful film.

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