What is "crazy like a fox"

a. (context idiomatic English) Behaving in a foolish, frivolous, or uncomprehending manner as a ruse for concealing clever deeds or deeper intentions.

Crazy like a Fox is a 2004 comedy-drama film about a man who is evicted from his eighth-generation family home and farm in Virginia and fights to win it back. The film stars Roger Rees and Mary McDonnell and was directed by Richard Squires. It was shown at the Savannah Film and Video Festival in the United States on October 25, 2004 and played in three New York City theaters and a movie theater in Sterling, VA from May 5, 2006 to May 18, 2006. It was also released on DVD in 2006 through its production company, the Delphi Film Foundation.

Crazy like a Fox may refer to:

• Crazy like a Fox (1926 film), a 1926 film starring Charley Chase
• Crazy Like a Fox (1944 book), book by writer/humorist S.J. Perelman; usage gained popularity after his book.
• Crazy Like a Fox (TV series), an American television series (1984–1986)
• Still Crazy like a Fox, a 1987 American television movie that was a spinoff of the television series
• Crazy like a Fox (2004 film), a dramatic comedy starring Roger Rees
• "Crazy like a Fox", the opening song from the Keith Moon album Two Sides of the Moon

Crazy like a Fox is a 1926 American short film starring Charley Chase. The two-reel silent comedy stars Chase as a young man who feigns insanity in order to get out of an arranged marriage, only to find out that his sweetheart is the girl he has been arranged to marry. Chase would remake the film as The Wrong Miss Wright (1937) in the sound era during his tenure at Columbia Pictures.

The film features Oliver Hardy in a small role filmed shortly before his teaming with Stan Laurel.

Crazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired on CBS from December 30, 1984 to May 3, 1986.