Review of After the Fox (1966) by Brian R — 17 May 2010

I have fond memories of watching this as a youth. It's a broad and undemanding but enjoyable comedy starring Peter Sellers as Aldo Vanucci aka "The Fox", a criminal with a talent for disguise, who decides to pose as a film director at work on his latest feature about gold-smuggling in order to get the unwitting villagers/extras to help bring the very real gold ashore.

There's good chemistry between Sellers and Britt Ekland, but then they were married at that time so you'd hope there would be wouldn't you? Victor Mature - an actor who could never be accused of taking himself too seriously - is the pick of the cast as Tony Powell, a has-been matinee idol, even if there wasn't much in the way of acting required! The Italian locations are great, and the film's title song (written by Bacharach and David, and performed by The Hollies) is an insanely-catchy piece of nonsense.

There isn't anything particularly bad about the whole enterprise - it's just a shame that it's not as funny as I remember it being!