| Toto the Sheik | |
| Director: | Mario Mattoli |
| Producer: | Romolo Laurenti |
| Starring: | Totò |
| Cinematography: | Mario Albertelli |
| Editing: | Giuliana Attenni |
| Studio: | Manenti Film |
| Distributor: | Titanus Distribuzione |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
Toto the Sheik (Italian: '''Totò sceicco''') is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.[1] [2] It is a parody of desert films such as The Son of the Sheik and Siren of Atlantis.
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.