After the Fox - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[jim]

In the prologue, the passenger in the van containing the gold bars is reading the November 1965 issue of Playboy Magazine.

[toni]

In one of the films-within-the-film, Moses is supposedly played by John Huston. The previous year, the real Huston had appeared in "The Bible," but as Noah, not Moses.

[jim]

The actor portraying Moses (in the Biblical epic being filmed by Vittorio De Sica in the desert) has a hairstyle modeled on Michelangelo's renowned sculpture "Moses." Horns are sculpted into the actor's hair, mimicking the "horns" in Michelangelo's statue. (The horns were placed there due to a mistranslation of the Bible, in which the Hebrew word for "rays" was misread as "horns").

[ella]

DIRECTOR_CAMEO(Vittorio De Sica as himself, directing the Biblical epic from which The Fox steals the film equipment.

[charlie]

Neil Simon's first screenplay.

[wesley]

Peter Sellers and co-star Britt Eklund were married at the time.

[aaron]

One of the movie posters on the wall in Gina's room is for La Pantera Rosa (The Pink Panther) and lists Peter Sellers as one of the stars.

[ken]

Lydia Brazzi, who plays Peter Sellers' mother, was chosen when Vittorio De Sica saw her in a restaurant with Rossano Brazzi. He pleaded with her to play the matronly row, not realising she was in fact Brazzi's wife. She would appear in only three other movies.

[mathew]

Musicians in the band on the soundtrack included bassist Jack Bruce and Burt Bacharach on piano.

[sara]

In a top-floor apartment Aldo Vanucci takes a bubble bath. Policemen arrive to arrest him, thus forcing which him, naked and covered in soap suds, to hide in a pigeon loft on the apartment building roof. These are NOT the same old apartment and building where M. Hulot lives in the film Mon Oncle (1958).

[jesse]

The "Sophia" that Vanucci pretends to talk to on the phone is obviously supposed to be Sophia Loren, then at the height of her popularity.

[jesus]

Dialogue by of the Italian cast members has been dubbed into English by British equity members such as Irene Handl, Robert Rietty, Grégoire Aslan, Roger Delgado, and Nikki Van der Zyl among others.

[kyle]

Title song, composed by Burt Bacharach, is sung by The Hollies.

[sara]

When Harry Granoff (Martin Balsam) is trying to make a phone call to Rome when he's drunk, he has a miscommunication with the operator. He finally says to the operator, "No, not Roma. Rome!" Six years later, director Federico Fellini (who is parodied by Peter Sellers in this film) made a film called Roma (1972).