"After the Fox" succeeds on so many levels. It is equal bits caper film, slapstick, and filmmaking satire. It also allows Peter Sellers' fertile comic mind to run free as a master criminal masquerading as an Italian neo-realist filmmaker. Good supporting turns are given here by Victor Mature as a vain American movie star and Martin Balsam as Mature's exasperated agent. Britt Ekland, Sellers' wife at the time, is good as Sellers' incorrigible sister. Director Vittorio De Sica makes good use of the Italian locales and peoples the film with authentic locals. I was surprised that this film was scripted by Neil Simon because alot of his work is topheavy with verbal gags but this film is equally weighted with the visual and verbal jokes. A wonderful entry in the Peter Sellers canon.
That's right, I am the Fox...
The first time I saw this riotious movie was at The RKO Theatre in Washington D.C. the first weekend it appeared. It made me laugh then and still makes me laugh some forty years later. It's Peter Sellers portraying a master thief and mommas boy in a script penned by Neil Simon, directed by one of the princes of Italian cinema, Vittorio DeSica, shot in Rome and the Amalfi Coast. We see Sellers, (The Fox!) concoct a scheme to break out of prison to comfort his mother and try and control his sister (played by Mrs. Sellers,Britt Ecklund) while on the outside The Fox hatchs a plan to steal the gold of Cairo (lots of gold bricks). Many great Italian character actors and a very funny matinee idol, Victor Mature as "Tony Powell", a name repeated a hundred time for comic effect. It's $11.90 plus shipping, that's about what you would pay to see "Duece Bigelow" at your movie house and this is many times funnier-I'm guessing.
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Most likely the worst theme song in movie history! Peter Sellers is good but Victor Mature steals this movie. This is the only film I like with Mature. Quite a sense of humor, he really lets his shiny black hair down and totally mocks his own career and obviously, has a hoot doing it. Very good.
Though this film is a relatively minor one in the massive canon of Peter Sellers, it has moments of absolute hilarity. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, one of Sellers's most fertile collaborators, the film stars Sellers as a would-be actor from India (let them try to get away with that today) who is a walking disaster area. After ruining a day's shooting as an extra on a film, he finds himself unintentionally invited to a big Hollywood party. That's pretty much it as far as plot goes, but Edwards and Sellers know how to milk a simple idea for an unending string of slapstick gags. The result is a film that is episodic and sketchy, but also frequently loony in an inspired way. --Marshall FineMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Peter Sellers Director(s): Blake Edwards DVD Release Date: Released the 11 December 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The World of Henry Orient would be a classic, if only more people knew about it. Here are the adventures of two prep-school Manhattan girls, memorably played by Merrie Spaeth and Tippy Walker, who decide to dedicate a brief but crucial moment in their lives to the adoration of one Henry Orient (Peter Sellers). Orient is a concert pianist--with curiously uncertain accent--more renowned for his mistresses than his playing. (Although Sellers is onscreen for less than half the picture, he sketches one of his comic gems.) The movie has a wonderful J.D. Salinger flavor of early-'60s New York privilege, with a keen sense of the secret lives adolescents can construct for themselves. Director George Roy Hill brings an occasional burst of New Wave style but otherwise steers the movie into... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Peter Sellers - Merrie Spaeth - Tippy Walker Director(s): George Roy Hill DVD Release Date: Released the 15 October 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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An entertaining cops and robbers yarn, however, if you are looking for Peter Sellers in his full comic range don't look here. It appears that he is passing the time until "Dr. Strangelove came his way. That said, Sellers fans who are familiar with his greater work will be entertained by this lesser endeavor. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Peter Sellers - Lionel Jeffries Director(s): Cliff Owen DVD Release Date: Released the 24 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Mouse That Roared (1959) is mostly remembered as a tour-de-force by a peerless comic actor, Peter Sellers, playing all three of the principal roles. It's worth seeing for that reason alone, but the film is also one of the most memorable satires of nuclear geopolitics produced during the cold war and, along with another Sellers vehicle, Dr. Strangelove, provides an unbeatable illustration of the paranoia and helplessness engendered by that period.
The Mouse That Roared tells the story of the fictional European principality of Grand Fenwick. Finding itself on the wrong end of a trade dispute with the United States, and noting America's generosity in rebuilding the countries it had fought in World War II, Grand Fenwick's rulers hit upon the idea of declaring war... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Peter Sellers - Jean Seberg Director(s): Jack Arnold DVD Release Date: Released the 08 July 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Thanks to an extraordinary, delicately balanced performance by Peter Sellers, Being There received mixed reviews during its theatrical release in 1979, but has since become a celebrated comedy with a loyal following. It's one of the most unusual black comedies ever made, simply because it stretches a simple premise over 130 minutes of straight-faced, strangely compelling commentary on politics, media, and celebrity in media-savvy America. Adapted by Jerzy Kozinsky from his own novel, the movie's about a simple-minded, middle-aged gardener who, after a lifetime of seclusion and safety in a Washington, D.C. townhouse, gets his first exposure to reality beyond the walls of his sheltered existence. His only reference to the world is through his childlike addiction to television, and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Peter Sellers - Shirley MacLaine Director(s): Hal Ashby DVD Release Date: Released the 03 April 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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