Review of After the Fox (1966) by Stuart K — 18 Apr 2010
Written by Neil Simon, who was a successful playwright, and directed by Vittorio De Sica. This is a silly but lighthearted crime caper which gives it's star an opportunity to put on silly voices and disguises, much like his Clouseau would do in the later Pink Panther films.
It has £3 million dollars in gold bullion being stolen from Cairo, and for the gold to get into Europe, that assingment is given to master Italian thief Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers), who is known as The Fox.
He's just escaped from jail, and he wants the gold for himself. So, he comes up with a plan to get the gold into Italy. He poses as an Italian film director called Federico Fabrizi. He plans to have the gold smuggled in as part of a scene in an avant-garde film, which is being shot in the fishing village of Sevalio.
He even sweet talks past-his-prime Hollywood actor Tony Powell (Victor Mature) to appear in the film, and Aldo gets his sister Gina (Britt Ekland) to be in it too. It's a very silly film, but it's obvious that Peter Sellers likes pretending to be Italian, but it's very well shot, and the score by Burt Bacharach, and the title song by The Hollies and Sellers is very catchy.
Almost everything else is very silly indeed.
This review of After the Fox (1966) was written by Stuart K on 18 Apr 2010.
After the Fox has generally received positive reviews.
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