Curiosidades

Italian censorship visa # 8922 delivered on 21-11-1950.

The movie spoofs in the first part The Son of the Sheik (1926) and in the second part Siren of Atlantis (1949). Both movies were distributed in Italy short before filming of Totò sceicco.

The first ever screenplay of this movie was originally titled Totò e i dischi volanti and had a different plot: Totò's character, working as "barker" for the tax office in order to find dogs being tax evaders, would have sent to Arabia by some secret agents in order to transmit a secret document containing the data of a launching pad for flying saucers, and there he would have been mistaken for the son of the sheik. This plot was later reused in a comic book dedicated to Totò.

Carlo Croccolo appears as a waiter in an inn. It's the first scene he plays together with Totò, although he had already starred in Tototarzan (1950). Croccolo starred then in other 6 movies with Totò in primary roles and in 1957 he became his only authorized dubber. In 1964 they wrote together the screenplay of Fidanzamento all'italiana, a movie which was never realized.

The movie, although set mainly in Arabia, was entirely filmed in Italy. The desert was recreated on the beach of Sabaudia, near Rome.