After the Fox

After the Fox Italian Caccia alla volpe is a 1966 BritishItalian comedy film starring Peter Sellers and directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay is in English, by Neil Simon and De Sicas longtime collaborator Cesare Zavattini.

The story begins in Cairo where Okra Akim Tamiroff, using a bikiniclad accomplice Maria Grazia Buccella as a distraction, hijacksmillion in gold bullion. The thieves need a way to smuggle the two tons of gold bars into Europe. There are only four master criminals considered able to smuggle the gold One is French, but so crippled he can barely move his wheelchair one is Irish, but so nearsighted that he is arrested after trying to hold up a police station instead of a bank one is German, but so fat he can barely get through a door. The only man cunning enough to outwit Interpol is Aldo Vanucci Peter Sellers, also known as The Fox, a master criminal with a talent for disguise.Vanucci is in prison. He knows about the smuggling contract, but is reluctant to accept it, because he does not want to disgrace his mother and young sister, Gina Britt Ekland. However, when his three sidekicks inform him that Gina has grown up and does not always come home after school, an enraged, overprotective Vanucci vows to escape. He succeeds by impersonating the prison doctor and convincing the guards that Vanucci has tied him up and escaped. The guards capture the real doctor and bring him face to face with Vanucci, who flees with the aid of his gang. Vanucci returns home where his mother tells him that Gina is working on the Via Veneto. Vanucci takes this to mean that Gina is a prostitute. Disguised as a priest, Aldo sees Gina, who is provocatively dressed, flirting and kissing a fat, middleaged man. Aldo attacks the man, but it turns out that Gina, who aspires to be a movie star, is merely acting in a lowbudget film. Aldos actions cost her the role, but he realizes that the smuggling job will make his familys life better. He makes contact with Okra and agrees to smuggle the gold into Italy for 50 percent of the take. Meanwhile, two policemen are constantly on Vanuccis trail, and he uses several disguises and tricks to throw them off. After seeing a crowd mob overthehill American ma

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