Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31913 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-02-05
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 102 minutes

From the Back Cover
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 capabale 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. Fact from the vault: Director Vittorio De Sica, Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film (The Bicycle Thief, 1949), not only directed After the Fox, but also played himself in one scene.

Customer Reviews

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.

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!

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.