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Caccia alla volpe / After the Fox (1966)
104 min | XviD 640x272 | 1316 kb/s | 192 kb/s mp3 CBR | 23.97 fps | 1.05 GB + 3% recovery record
English | Subtitles: Spanish, English and Portuguese .srt | Genre: Comedy | RS.com
After the Fox is a fine and entertaining comedy with Peter Sellers at his best right after a couple of "Pink Panther" titles, as a master thief who finds the way through which the police will guard his millionaire robbery while he is accomplishing it. A good supporting cast with Akim Tamiroff, Martin Balsam and pretty Britt Ekland is there too. But what really surprises is Victor Mature's convincing and funny performance as an aging star who refuses to accept the passing of time.
This movie is two good things at the same time—first, it's a Peter Sellers comedy, which is wonderful enough in itself. Here he plays an Italian master criminal, with full Italian cinema schtick, first as a gangster, and then as a director. He conceives a scheme to smuggle gold stolen in Egypt by the befezzed Egyptian Okra (Akim Tamiroff, ready to play any sort of foreigner), under the cover of making a movie. To do so, he steals the production equipment from Vittorio de Sica, playing himself—as Moses walks into the desert, he cries, "More sand! More sand in the desert!" And then the production, in a tiny coastal village, is a breathtaking parody of neorealism, with all the villagers clamouring to play parts, the vagueness and phony existentialism of the director's posturing, and the cheekbones of the starstruck police chief (Lando Buzzanca). At the trial—because of course things go wrong—the prosecutor shows grotesque black & white footage, and a film critic leaps to his feet applauding, and is carried out of the courtroom crying out that it is a work of primitive genius. The story is by Neil Simon, the star turn is by Peter Sellers, but the parody is pure de Sica. IMDB comment.
While certainly not one of his greatest works, Peter Sellers nonetheless shines as Aldo Vanucci, aka "The Fox". He underplays the role in his early scenes, as the scheming criminal, but pulls out all the stops when the character hits upon the idea to masquerade as "Fredrico Fabrizi" the great neo-realist. Much like the scheme inspires Vanucci, the disguise inspires Sellers, and his wildly inventive genius kicks into high gear. Equally funny is Victor Mature as aging, past-his-prime movie idol Tony Powell. It's a well-written part (by Neil Simon), but Mature really brings him to life, and rather than merely making him a buffoon, which would have been easy to do, he gives him a quality of sympathy; deep down, despite all his posturing and pompousness, Powell probably knows he's on the decline. All-in-all, a very funny film, with a truly inspired Sellers performance, even if it's not his best. Even a little really good Sellers goes a long way. He's sadly missed. IMDB comment.
Tras la pista del zorro. En esta regocijante comedia Peter Sellers asume distintas personalidades, cada una más alocada y divertida que la precedente. El genio cómico del actor, la magnífica dirección de Vittorio de Sica (El ladrón de bicicletas) y el brillante guión original de Neil Simon (La chica del adiós) hacen de Tras la pista del Zorro una cita obligada para los amantes de la diversión. Un cargamento de lingotes de oro valorado en millones de dólares viaja desde El Cairo hasta un destino deconocido en Italia. Sólo hay en el mundo un criminal capaz de apropiarse de él: Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers), también conocido como "el Zorro". Aldo ha tramado un plan perecto para apoderarse del oro: haciéndose pasar por un director de cine, contrata a una egoísta estrella cinematográfica venida a menos (Victor Mature) y a su propia hermana (la voluptuosa Britt Ekland) para rodar una inexistente película acerca de... ¡el robo de un tesoro!
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