- The "sheikh" is pure pulp fantasy: a preening Italian actor costumed as a Valentino-style desert seducer for photo-strip romances, whose tent-and-turban act exists to make a provincial bride swoon - the Arab reduced to a seduction costume.
The White Sheik (1951)
film
- Distributor
- A FEDERICO FELLINI PROD
- Cast
- Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Giulietta Masina
- Production notes
- Italian, with English subtitles. Remade as The World’s Greatest Lover (1977). SP, D: Fellini