After the Fox
After the Fox is a 1966 heist comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Peter Sellers, Victor Mature and Britt Ekland. The English-language screenplay was written by Neil Simon and De Sica's longtime collaborator Cesare Zavattini.
Plot
Outside of Cairo, criminal mastermind Okra hijacks $3 million in gold bullion. The thieves now need a way to smuggle the two tons of gold into Europe. Aldo Vanucci, a master of disguise known as The Fox, is one of the few men who can handle the assignment, but he is in prison, and reluctant to accept the job for fear of disgracing his mother and young sister Gina. When his three sidekicks inform him that Gina does not always come home after school, an enraged, overprotective Vanucci vows to escape. He impersonates the prison doctor and flees to Rome with the aid of his gang. There, his mother tells him Gina is working on the street, which Vanucci takes to mean prostitution. But Gina is merely acting in a low-budget film shooting on the Via Veneto. Vanucci realizes the smuggling job will improve his family's life. He contacts Okra and agrees to smuggle the gold into Italy for half of the take.
Cast
- Akim Tamiroff
- Britt Ekland
- Carlo Croccolo
- Carlo Delle Piane
- Carlo Pisacane
- Daniela Igliozzi
- Daniele Vargas
- Enrico Luzi
- Enzo Fiermonte
- Franco Sportelli
- Giustino Durano
- Lando Buzzanca
- Mac Ronay
- Marcella Rovena
- Maria Grazia Buccella
- Martin Balsam
- Maurice Denham
- Mimmo Poli
- Nino Vingelli
- Paolo Stoppa
- Peter Sellers
- Piero Gerlini
- Roberto De Simone
- Tiberio Murgia
- Timothy Bateson
- Tino Buazzelli
- Victor Mature
- Vittorio De Sica
More details
| author | Cesare Zavattini Neil Simon |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Italy |
| director | Vittorio De Sica |
| editor | Russell Lloyd |
| genre | action animation comedy crime |
| keywords | act cairo car chase criminal mastermind film crew film critic film shoot fishing village italian neo-realist italian neorealism matinee idol movie star shoot smuggle the gold of naples |
| musicBy | Burt Bacharach Piero Piccioni |
| producer | John Bryan |
| productionCompany | Delegate / Nancy Enterprises |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | crime comedy heist |