Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?
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Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?
2002-10-31
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Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
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