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Summary: Peter Sellers at his BEST
Review: If you like Peter Sellers, this is a MUST SEE , MUST HAVE movie. I ordered the DVD and can't wait to get.The screenplay by Neil Simon-- ( Read his autobiography for a hilarious chapter on the making of this film) Music by Burt Bacharach Acting by Peter Sellers, Victor Mature who is brillant Need I say more. I agree this is the most underrated comedy of all time. If your blue, buy and watch this movie. You can't help but laugh
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Summary: "In HERE is my script - in HERE is my story!"
Review: Okay, SHOESHINE it ain't; this is one of DeSica's later efforts, but it's a lot better than you may have been led to believe. Coming from the heyday of international co-productions (many of them tax dodges, but that's a rant for another forum), what's surprising about FOX is that it's not an outright disaster - that it happens to be a very funny spoof of, among other things, De Sica-styled neorealism constitutes icing on a cake you never expected would be as tasty as it is . For me, the key name here is Neil Simon. Rather than the semi-autobiographical schmaltz he's acclaimed for, this has the flavor of his early TV work for SGT BILKO - in fact, a younger Phil Silvers could have played the Vanucci/Fabrizi part as energetically as Sellers (great here as the flamboyant thief and con man Aldo Vanucci). A brief precis: Italian criminal genius Vanucci breaks jail to rescue the honor of his movie-mad sister; while out, he decides to pull one last big job, requiring his adopting the fictional identity of neorealist filmmaker Federico Fabrizi -shooting his new epic on location in the little town of Saverio- to provide a cover to transport the loot. The beautifully-shot locations throughout AFTER THE FOX add a dimension -satirizing the fanatical Italian love for movies and moviemaking- to the very funny con-man plot that propels the movie forwards. This could easily have been a dubbed mess: instead it's amazingly coherent and clever, and Sellers' scenes with aging matinee idol Victor Mature & his wary agent Martin Balsam are priceless. Both the Vanucci & Fabrizi parts of the narrative work well and are full of terrific camerawork that capture witty visual detail while rendering the flavor of Italy in the 1960s with palpable life. Scenes like Sellers returning home to Mamma, only to find himself interrupting a public bingo game, never get old. ("Mamma, it is I! ALDO! Your son!" "I have no son - I have a due under the 'B'" ; "You mean my sister is a - " "BIN - goli!!") AFTER THE FOX deserves a higher profile than it's gotten thus far - as do DeSica, Sellers & Simon for their underappreciated work here.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: One of Peter Sellers most entertaining films.But the real star of this film is Victor Mature, Me and my family watch this film at least two timas a year.
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Summary: one of the funniest movies i have ever seen
Review: peter sellers is at his very best! this is perhaps the funniest movie i have ever seen. the rest of the cast is also hilarious.
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Summary: Sellers is good, but Mature is marvelous
Review: Peter Sellers is good, as usual, but the best moments go to Victor Mature as the aging matinee idol. His self-effacing performance as the graying matinee idol in runny shoe polish and mascara is hillarious.
Great moment: Courtroom film critic rises to proclaim The Fox, whose movie mess was a ruse to steal gold, a genius. Was de Sica expressing contempt for a new generation of filmmakers?
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Summary: Classic Sellers!
Review: Peter Sellers is, once again, outstanding in this film. What a brilliant man! And the theme song's pretty cool too. :)
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Summary: "I wanna be in the movies"
Review: Read all the other reviewers - they've got it right.
Five stars. My 12-year old daughter and I know every line ("and I hold you responsible for the chicken!") and are always dancing around the house to the music. We've had an old Japanese VHS copy, with Japanese subtitles (often wrong, by the way, but quite funny) and were afraid we'd wear it out after nine years so ordered the DVD. Must say, the sound quality is not that great - a lot flatter than the VHS, except for the Movie Trailer which has all the brassiness of the analogue version.
One great thing for us watching it on wide-screen was seeing all the stuff going on left and right of the action you see on VHS.
My wife still can't understand why we like this movie so much, but English is not her native language and this movie is very verbal. Other good features on the disk are the language selections. You can watch it in French, Spanish or English (if you buy the US Amazon edition) and choose from French, Spanish or English subtitles. Don't know why there's no Italian - or Japanese for that matter, but that's often the way with DVDs. Highly recommended.
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Summary: "Hey, They're Making a Movie!"
Review: So scream the peasant housewives of Savalio when they see Peter Sellers aka Federico Fabrizi aka Aldo Vanucci and his goons setting up their tripod to shoot close-ups of Britt Ekland, Aldo's star-struck sister Gina. The plan? To be able to land a stolen shipment of gold and get it unloaded on an Italian beachfront. And what better way to do this than convince an entire town that they are going to be extras in your movie about a shipment of gold? Master thief Sellers hatches the plan while watching an old Tony Powell (Victor Mature) movie while in disguise as a cavalliere--he has to be in disguise, since his daring prison break at the picture's outset. So of the course, the logical step is to get a movie star in the ersatz picture, one like Tony Powell, who is such a has-been that he'll be in anything that allows him to flash his ivories and wear his trademark trenchcoat. Comedic situations abound as the "filming" progresses. Sellers does a great job of pretending to be a dubbed-in Italian actor, but the real standout is Victor Mature, throwing caution to the wind and his reputation out the window as he sinks his formidable teeth into the role of the aging matinee idol. Intent on one more leading man role, now in a new wave foreign film, he constantly bucks the better advice of his agent, the exasperated Martin Balsam. It seems like I've seen this movie all my life; the whole family can recite scenes verbatim. Mark my words; if you see this movie, the same will happen to yours!
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Summary: Not one of Sellers' best
Review: Sorry to disagree with all those reviewers who loved this movie, but Peter Sellers did many better films than this. "Dr. Strangelove" was the masterpiece. "Being There" is an underrated and understated sendup of how things happen in Washington. "The World of Henry Orient" (AT LAST on DVD!)is priceless but virtually unknown, with delicious performances from Sellers and especially his teenage tormentors. Finally, the "Pink Panther" series is much better slapstick than "After the Fox," which has many famous, talented participants but is mostly silly, unfortunately not as hilariously and frenetically silly as Clouseau & Co. One irritant was the repetition and prolongation of gags and situations, as if we might not notice them otherwise. I agree with other reviewers that Victor Mature does as well as possible with the role he is allotted, and Martin Balsam does okay with his stuff, too. When watching this film, I kept thinking the same thoughts as when attending a mediocre restaurant -- I could have cooked up something better than this myself for a lot less money.
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Summary: Not one of Sellers' best
Review: Sorry to disagree with all those reviewers who loved this movie, but Peter Sellers did many better films than this. "Dr. Strangelove" was the masterpiece. "Being There" is an underrated and understated sendup of how things happen in Washington. "The World of Henry Orient" (AT LAST on DVD!)is priceless but virtually unknown, with delicious performances from Sellers and especially his teenage tormentors. Finally, the "Pink Panther" series is much better slapstick than "After the Fox," which has many famous, talented participants but is mostly silly, unfortunately not as hilariously and frenetically silly as Clouseau & Co. One irritant was the repetition and prolongation of gags and situations, as if we might not notice them otherwise. I agree with other reviewers that Victor Mature does as well as possible with the role he is allotted, and Martin Balsam does okay with his stuff, too. When watching this film, I kept thinking the same thoughts as when attending a mediocre restaurant -- I could have cooked up something better than this myself for a lot less money.
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