MOVIE · 1952
The White Sheik
ComedyDramaRomance86 min
A newlywed couple arrives in Rome for a tightly planned honeymoon: an audience with the Pope, family introductions, and a proper start to married life. Instead, the bride slips away in secret to track down the dashing hero of the romance photo-stories she adores. While she chases a fantasy through studios and seaside locations, her husband spends the day scrambling across the city, inventing excuse after excuse for relatives who are waiting to meet the missing wife. As the hours pass, embarrassment turns into panic, and the gap between married respectability and movie-fed daydreams grows harder to hide. Alberto Sordi appears as the swaggering idol she is so determined to find.
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