Toto the Sheik
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Plot
Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family, governed by the Marquis Gastone. Gastone is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the French Foreign Legion. The old Marchesa, his mother, persuades Antonio to enlist to watch over Gastone, and so he arrives in Arabia.
There Antonio is led with barrel (because enlistment is secret), and is exchanged by Arabs for their sheikh, who came to lead the revolt against the western invaders. The vicissitudes follow one another, especially when the rebels discover that Antonio is not the Sheikh, and so, having also escaped a death sentence, Antonio ends up in a secret passage, in the lost city of Atlantis, where he meets the beautiful Queen Antinea.
Cast
- Totò as Antonio Sapore, il maggiordomo
- Tamara Lees as Antinea, la regina di Atlantide
- Laura Gore as Lulù
- Lauretta De Lauri as Fatma
- Ada Dondini as La marchesa
- Kiki Urbani as La danzatrice araba
- Aroldo Tieri as Il marchese Gastone
- Cesare Polacco as Mohamed
- Arnoldo Foà as Il matto
- Mario Castellani as Il colonnello dei ribelli
- Riccardo Billi as L'arabo della cella bianca
- Ubaldo Lay as Il maggiore della legione
- Carlo Duse as Un beduino
- Carlo Croccolo as Il cameriere
- Ughetto Bertucci as Ludovico, l'autista
References
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Bibliography
- Roberto Curti. Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969. McFarland, 2015.
External links
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- 1950 films
- Italian comedy films
- 1950s Italian-language films
- 1950 comedy films
- Italian black-and-white films
- Films based on Atlantida
- Films directed by Mario Mattoli
- Films set in deserts
- Films about the French Foreign Legion
- Films with screenplays by Age & Scarpelli
- 1950s Italian films