After the Fox

After the Fox (Italian: Caccia alla volpe) is a 1966 film about an Italian crook who hides his caper behind disguises and the making of an avant-garde movie. Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Written by Neil Simon and Cesare Zavattini. Watch your girl, guard your gold, hold your jewels ...the fox is loose! Aldo Vanucci Arrgh... If only I could steal enough to become an honest man! Because I am a small crook, I go to prison. It's only the big crooks that go free. Is that justice? Take this soap and wash those lips off your face. If you're in the movies they give you milllons of dollars. Women tear your clothes off. Pollce protect you wherever you go. [as Fabrizi, to the police chief] In films either you have got a face or you don't got a face. You have got a face. [as Fabrizi, to Tony and Gina] When I give you the signal, do nothing, absolutely nothing. [as Fabrizi] Where is he? Where is my Tony!? Where is my beautiful Tony? Look at that skin—like a baby. Whatsa matter, you never get old like the rest of us, eh? I love him, I LOVE him! [as Fabrizi] Stop! Stop! Cut! Cut! Shame on you, Sevalio! You are a disgrace to your village and to the motion picture industry! [as Fabrizi] As an international film director, I asked for fake gold. Some crook used real gold instead. I suspect - I suspect hanky-panky. Gina Romantica [to Tony Powell] You're even more beautiful in person than you are in real life. Dialogue Aldo: I'll get you a new stove, with push buttons! Mama Vanucci: [breaking down in tears after the statement] I don't want buttons! I want grandchildren! Aldo: You hear that Gina, your Mama wants grandchildren! Gina: You're a crook. Steal her some! Aldo: Mama, look the other way. I'm going to kill Gina. Aldo: Where is Gina, mama? Mama: On the street. Aldo: You mean my sister is a— Woman: BINGO. Aldo: If I cannot trust you, you are to stay in your room until you are 21 years old. Gina: I go where I want and when I want! Can you say the same, fugitive? Aldo: Now just you listen to me, you, you - you delinquent. Gina: Sneak! Aldo: Harlot! Gina: Coward! Aldo: Tramp! Starlet! Harry Granoff: Tony, sweetheart, I wish we could turn the clock back for you. We all wanna stay young! But you can't lie to the close-up lens, baby. You know that. You try leading the charge of the Light Brigade wearing a corset, they'll laugh you right off the screen. Tony Powell: I'd rather get laughs than sympathy. Tony Powell: Why don't you send out for a wheelchair and have me rolled into the old actors' home? I don't care what it says in Who's Who. I still feel 35 years old. And you can tell Sam Duffleman for me, if he wants me to play a 64-year-old sheriff in his next picture, he'll have to wait another 20 years. Harry Granoff: Who's gonna belleve you're 64? Tony Powell: 63-year-old ladies. I remember that trench coat there is your bread and butter. Without it you have 10 per cent of nothing. Harry Granoff: All right, you don't have to be 64. You could be 60. Tony Powell: I don't wanna be 60! I wanna be 40. Harry Granoff: How can you be 40 when your son is 35? Tony Powell: They can make the son 25. Harry Granoff: How can you make the son 25 when his wife is 30? Tony Powell: Look at those teeth, Harry. Just look at 'em. How many people in the world over 40 can still say they have their own teeth, huh? Harry Granoff: And how many people over 50 can still say they're only 40? Gina: [watching one of Tony Powell's movies] Ooh, he's a good kisser. Aldo: You know how many good kissers are starving in Italy? Harry Granoff: Did you ever hear of an Italian film director called Federico Fabrizi? Tony Powell: No. Harry Granoff: He's downstairs. He wants to talk about a picture. Tony Powell: What? Harry Granoff: A neorealistic film. Tony Powell: Send him up. What's neorealism? Harry Granoff: No money! Aldo: [introducing himself after making a grand entrance into the room] Federico Fabrizi! Harry Granoff: I'm sorry, I don't speak Italian. Harry Granoff: Can I see a script!? Fabrizi: In here is my script, in here is my story. Aldo: [as Fabrizi, explaining the concept of his movie] Tony plays 'The Fox'... Tony Powell: [interrupting] An animal picture! Aldo: No, "The Fox", a master criminal with an ingenious plan to smuggle gold into Italy, and - a surprise ending! Harry Granoff: What's the ingenious plan? Aldo: That is the surprise ending. Tony Powell: I love it! When do we start shooting? Aldo: [the stolen gold is delayed and Fabrizi has to shoot some of his 'neo-realist' film] We are ready for the next shot, only in this scene instead of doing nothing, we do something. Tony Powell: [exasperated] What? Aldo: Running, running. Tony Powell: What are we running from? Aldo: From yourselves. Uh, you get the symbolic meaning? [Tony shakes his head 'no'] Aldo: Aah! No matter how fast you run, you can never run away from yourselves! Tony Powell: Aahh! Beautiful! Fabrizi: Sophia, hello my darling...no, Sophia, I told you I'm busy with Tony Powell... I'm sorry, Sophia, you will have to get somebody else. Sophia—I'm sorry my darling, there's no part for you in the picture...Would I lie to you? So—Soph—Sophia don't cry! Tony, talk to this girl, she's hysterical, she's hysterical. Talk to her, please. Tony: Hello, Sophia?— she hung up. Fabrizi: She'll kill me, she'll kill me. It'll be in all the Italian newspapers! Cast Peter Sellers as Aldo Vanucci / Federico Fabrizi Victor Mature as Tony Powell Britt Ekland as Gina Vanucci / Gina Romantica Martin Balsam as Harry Granoff Akim Tamiroff as Okra Maria Grazia Buccella as Okra's sister Maurice Denham as The Chief of Interpol Paolo Stoppa as Polio Tino Buazzelli as Siepi Mac Ronay as Carlo Lydia Brazzi as Mamma Vanucci Lando Buzzanca as The Police Chief Rizzuto Tiberio Murgia as 1st Detective Francesco De Leone as 2nd Detective Pier Luigi Pizzi as Prison Doctor Enzo Fiermonte as Raymond Carlo Croccolo as Salvatore Nino Vingelli as a Judge Vittorio De Sica as himself Giustino Durano as the Film Critic External links 0060200 Category:American comedy films Category:Films directed by Vittorio De Sica Category:1966 American films Category:1966 British films Category:1966 Italian films Category:Screenplays by Neil Simon Category:1966 English-language films Category:Films about con artists Category:Films set in the Mediterranean Sea Category:Films with live action and animation Category:Films about actors