After the Fox (song)

After the Fox
Theatrical release poster by Frank Frazetta
Directed by	Vittorio De Sica
Produced by	John Bryan
Written by	Neil Simon Cesare Zavattini
Starring	Peter Sellers Britt Ekland Lydia Brazzi Paolo Stoppa Victor Mature Tino Buazzelli Vittorio De Sica
Music by	Burt Bacharach Piero Piccioni
Cinematography	Leonida Barboni
Edited by	Russell Lloyd
Production company	Delgate / Nancy Enterprises
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	1966 (1966)
Running time	103 min
Country	Italy United Kingdom
Language	English Italian
Box office	$2,296,970 (rentals)

After the Fox (Italian: Caccia alla volpe) is a 1966 British–Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica and starring Peter Sellers, Victor Mature and Britt Ekland. The screenplay is in English, by Neil Simon and De Sica's longtime collaborator Cesare Zavattini.

Despite its notable credits, the film was poorly received when it was released. It has gained a cult following for its numerous in-jokes skewering pompous directors, including Cecil B. DeMille, John Huston (who appears briefly in the movie, portraying Moses for De Sica in a film shoot within the film), Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and De Sica, vain film stars, their starstruck audiences and pretentious film critics. The film was remade in 2010 in Hindi as Tees Maar Khan.

The story begins outside Cairo where Okra (Akim Tamiroff), using a bikini-clad accomplice (Maria Grazia Buccella) as a distraction, hijacks $3 million 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 capable of smuggling the gold but each is ruled out. A Frenchman is so crippled that he can barely move his wheelchair, an Irishman is so nearsighted that he is arrested after trying to hold up a police station instead of a bank, a German is so fat he can barely get through a door and an Italian, Aldo Vanucci (Peter Sellers), also known as The Fox, a master criminal with a talent for disguise, is in prison.

Vanucci 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). When his three sidekicks inform him that Gina has grown up and does not always come home after school, an enraged, over-protective 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 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. He 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, middle-aged man. Aldo attacks the man, but it turns out that Gina, who aspires to be a movie star, is merely acting in a low-budget film. Aldo’s actions cost her the job but he realizes that the smuggling contract will make his family’s life better. He makes contact with Okra and agrees to smuggle the gold into Italy for half of the take. Two policemen are constantly on Vanucci’s trail and he uses disguises and tricks to throw them off. After seeing a crowd mob the over-the-hill American matinee idol Tony Powell (Victor Mature), it strikes Vanucci that movie stars and film crews are idolized and have free rein in society. This idea forms the basis of his master plan.