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Toto the Sheik

Toto the Sheik

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1950
1h 33m
6.8(59 votes)
Comedy

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Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.

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