Chase the fox!

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Movie
German title Chase the fox!
Original title Caccia alla volpe
Country of production Italy , USA , UK
original language English , Italian
Publishing year 1965
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Vittorio de Sica
script Cesare Zavattini
Neil Simon
production John Bryan
music Burt Bacharach
Piero Piccioni
camera Leonida Barboni
cut Russell Lloyd
occupation

Chase the fox! (Original title: Caccia alla volpe ) is an Italian-American-British crime comedy by Vittorio de Sica from 1965, based on the play After the Fox by Neil Simon . The German premiere was on December 16, 1966.

action

Gold bars worth $ 3 million are stolen in Cairo . The thieves try to smuggle the bars, which weigh almost two tons, into Europe. There are only four crooks who can do this. The French are dependent on a wheelchair; the Irishman is so short-sighted that he confuses the bank he is trying to rob for a police station; the German is so fat that he hardly fits through a door. Only the Italian Aldo Vanucci, nicknamed “Fox” and a disguise artist, seems to be cunning enough for this.

Vanucci, after meeting his sister (an actress), comes up with the idea of posing as the film director Federico Fabrizi. He wants to ship the bars on land in broad daylight. The whole thing should - for camouflage - be a scene in an avant-garde film he has directed . To make it seem realistic, Vanuzzi hires American star Tony Powell. The residents of a fishing village where the film is to be shot are so enthusiastic about the star that they willingly help out. Vanucci is exposed and his film, entitled “The Gold from Cairo”, is confiscated as evidence. In the subsequent legal proceedings, the film is hailed as a “masterpiece” by a film critic. Vanucci is sentenced to five years in prison, but he is able to break out of prison after a short time.

Reviews

“A strange cross between Italian and Anglo-Saxon comedy clichés, combined with a satire on the film industry. Turbulent, but tiring in the long run. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Overall, the film manages to combine elements of the crook comedy with the amusing parody of the film industry."

- TV movie

“With its clever combination of rogue comedy and parody of the film industry (including film criticism), the film is entertaining. But artistically it is relatively insignificant and - without any particular film style being mourned here - completely in the shadow of the director's earlier masterpieces. "

- Protestant film observer

background

  • Sellers and Ekland were married at the time of filming; they also made the film Bobo Is the Great (1967) together.
  • The Broadway writer Simon submitted his first film script here.
  • The film was shot in Italy, including in Rome, Perugia and on the island of Ischia .
  • Producer Bryan, who won an Oscar in 1948, made just one more film after that.
  • Composer Bacharach, who composed the music for the English film version (Piccioni was responsible for the Italian version), later won two Academy Awards.
  • The title song was sung by the band The Hollies with Peter Sellers.
  • The humorous animated title sequence was designed by Maurice Binder , who is best known for the titles of the James Bond films.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hunt the fox! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ The large TV feature film lexicon (Volume 3) - area Verlag - ISBN 3-89996-578-7
  3. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 62/1967