Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

SimonJack This Italian-made comedy has Peter Sellers in the role of a master crook of many disguises. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man," that might apply here. Because, except for a mustache and a little rearrangement of his hair, Aldo Vanucci – aka, "The Fox," is able to pass himself off as any number of people not readily recognized by the police. Of course, we in the audience recognize him right away. But his neat suit leaving the prison doesn't arouse the guards to check to see closely that it is not the prison psychiatrist leaving, but Vanucci. Then policemen walk right by him on the street when he appears as a priest with no facial changes at all; and then in a formal Army uniform as an officer, with a mustache. "After the Fox" is set in Rome and the Italian coast, where it was filmed. It's a good comedy of antics and situations that Sellers was master at. He is joined by Victor Mature, who plays an aging but still screen idol actor, Tony Powell. Also in the cast are Britt Ekland as his sister with her wannabe stage name of Gina Romantica. Martin Balsam plays Harry Granoff, Powell's frustrated agent. And one of the best supporting actors for mid-20th century comedies, Akim Tamiroff, plays Okra. Several other good small roles add to this fine comedy.Maria Grazia Buccella plays Okra's sister, but The Fox doesn't know it at the time and he's attracted to her on their first meeting. It's a hilarious scene and one of the funniest of all time in the movies. The Fox is supposed to met Okra in a well-known Italian restaurant that caters to tourists. They won't be so conspicuous there. The sister is sitting alone at a table and Okra is sitting at the table behind her. They are seated back-to-back, their chairs touching. She mouths the words that Okra speaks, in perfect sync so that one thinks it's really she who is speaking with the broken, deep male voice. The Fox thinks it is her voice at first and is taken aback. Okra tells him to sit down and that he is speaking through her because they wouldn't draw attention as would two men talking. A lengthy conversation takes place, and The Fox comes on to her during this. Her lip-synching is so perfect, it is one hilarious scene. Later on, Okra and The Fox have a similar scene when we see two horses drinking at a fountain, and hear the voices of the two men as they talk. One would think it was the horses (by ventriloquism) until the camera pans back and we see that Okra and The Fox are each driving a carriage with passengers. Things go into high gear when The Fox commandeers a film company truck and equipment to stage a fake movie in a small coastal town. It's there that they plan to land two tons of gold bars the Okra's gang managed to steal from Cairo, Egypt. The whole town gets involved. I can only imagine that the cast, film crew and all the people of that village must have had a fun time making this movie there. One last good element of this film is a crazy vehicle chase. Okra tries to flee the scene with the gold all by himself in the movie production truck. He turns on a smoke screen first and takes off. By this time the police have arrived, and the crazy chase with The Fox and police in pursuit winds up and down and around the roads from the village. The smoke screen is so dense after a while that we can't see the vehicles. Anyone who has seen "The Pink Panther" knows how this chase will end. It's a funny and very enjoyable film with more than a little satire of the Italian and Egyptian police, and of foreign filmmakers. Here are some funny lines from the film. For more, see the Quotes section on this IMDb Web page for the movie. Gina Romantica, watching a movie in a theater that stars Victor Mature, "He's a good kisser." Aldo Vanucci, "Do you know how many good kissers are starving in Italy?"Aldo Vanucci, to the Police Chief after townsfolk boo him, "We should have a talk in your office before they kill you." Police Chief, as he holds a cigar box open for Aldo, "Have a cigar." Aldo Vanucci, "Oh, I couldn't take your last one." Police Chief, "Thank you." Gina Romantica, to Tony Powell, "You're even more beautiful in person than you are in real life."Aldo Vanucci, to Tony and Gina, "When I give you the signal, do nothing, absolutely nothing." Bikini Girl comes to see Aldo, who doesn't know she is Okra's sister. She says, "He doesn't let me talk to anyone. I haven't used a telephone in six years. If he knew I was here, he would kill me." Aldo Vanucci, "That swine."

tieman64 Start with Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" and "North by Northwest", two tongue-in-cheek 1950's thrillers from which a line can be drawn directly to EON films' James Bond franchise. Keeping Hitchcock's humour and amping up the master's outlandish action set pieces, the first Bond movie premiered in 1962, and over the decade would be parodied by several spy spoofs and crime comedies, one of which was "The Pink Panther", a Peter Sellers vehicle released in 1963.Jump to 1968. "After The Fox" is released, another in a long line of crime spoofs, but one which has the strange distinction of being directed by legendary Italian director Vittorio De Sica. Again starring Peter Sellers, the film's plot pulls from "Pink Panther" (a heist plot, a bumbling hero, animated intros), "James Bond" (a suave, globe trotting hero) and Hitchcock (Sellers' fox burglar replaces Cary Grant's cat burglar), and works fairly well as an absurd parody, but its most interesting assets are De Sica's energetic storytelling and a slightly subversive subplot which satirises art house cinema and views with bitterness the way the movie industry exploits actors and ordinary people.The film was ignored upon release, but viewed in the context of all the other spoof comedies of the 60s, and even recent "bumbling hero spoofs" like "Johnny English" and "Austin Powers", De Sica's work holds up well. During this period, on the other side of the Atlantic, Woody Allen was treading similar ground with his own 60's comedies ("Pussycat", "Tiger Lilly", "Take The Money" etc).7.5/10 – Though De Sica's early neorealist work is championed, it's from this film onwards that he became a great artist. This is the case throughout history: the mediocre later works of bad artists are praised in favour for their early, greater works, whilst the late - and more sophisticated - works of great artists are ignored in favour for their earlier, easier works. This is not a great film, but it marks the point at which De Sica became a different person.Worth one viewing.

thinker1691 Peter Sellers become an overnight sensation long before he reach the stage where he could reject offers. Although he did in fact refuse many, this delightful offering was not one of them. The comedy film is called " After The Fox " and is the story of a famous international criminal whom we find is doing hard time in a prison in Italy. The story written by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple) is about Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers) who is contracted by Mr. Okra (Akim Tamiroff) to smuggle into Italy a stolen consignment of Gold Bullion. To do this 'The Fox' and his cohorts (Paolo Stoppa, Tino Buazzelli and Mac Ronay) pretend to be an international director and film crew. As Federico Febrizi, he flatters Tony Powell (Victor Mature) and convinces him to star in his Neo-realistic, but fabricated movie with his own sister 'Gina Romantica' (Britt Ekland) and vehemently protested by Tony's manager, Harry (Martin Balsam). The entire movie is one hilarious romp to the seaside and played to the max with the locals who just want to be in a movie. Of all the films Sellers has ever done, this is my favorite and is a tribute to the late great Victor Mature. The sound track is wonderfully memorable as the theme is sung by the British group, the Hollies and Sellers himself. A Classic in the best tradition. ****

bkoganbing After The Fox finds Peter Sellers and his then bride Britt Eklund working in Italy for director Vittorio DeSica. In it Sellers plays a criminal who if he's not quite a master at the crime trade, at least he's not a bumbler like Inspector Clousseau. The laughs Sellers gets in After The Fox come at the expense of others.A robbery of gold bullion has occurred in Egypt and Interpol is on the case. As we learned in The Lavender Hill Mob, gold bullion is not that easy to transport. Taking on the job of getting it into Europe after he's broken out of jail once again is Peter Sellers.How to do it? Right out in the open during the course of shooting a movie about a heist. Sellers pretends to be a director and gets the a whole coastal village in on his scheme. After all, who doesn't want to be in the movies?Part of Sellers plan is to convince over the hill American movie actor Victor Mature to star in his film. After The Fox was Mature's first film in five years, at this point in his life he worked when he felt like it. Mature was one of the least vain of all film stars, how many will say that he's no actor and have 63 pictures to prove it. He looked like he was having a ball satirizing himself and several of his colleagues still pretending they're leading men. Britt Eklund is Seller's girl friend and Akim Tamiroff is the guy who pulled off the gold heist. Maria Gracia Buccella has an unforgettable part as Tamiroff's sister and 'the bikini trap'. This woman in a bikini makes Sophia Loren look flat-chested. Martin Balsam also has a good role as Mature's exasperated agent.To see what happens if the budding film director can really smuggle some gold into Italy you have to see After The Fox. It's one of Peter Sellers best films and you've got to love Victor Mature for what he does with his own image here.