
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Don't Touch the White Woman! is a 1974 French-Italian Western comedy film co-written and directed by Marco Ferreri.
Plot
A fictionalized version of Custer's Last Stand, set at a real building site in Paris, France. Marcello Mastroianni stars as General George Armstrong Custer. Buffalo Bill Cody (Michel Piccoli) portrays a charlatan media impresario. Ugo Tognazzi gives a fictional portrayal of Mitch Bouyer, one of Custer's Native American scouts, who runs a business selling Native artifacts made in sweatshops by white women. Alain Cuny plays Sitting Bull who must defend his people when their apartment building homes are destroyed by the Union Cavalry. The film climaxes with the Battle of the Little Bighorn held in a large construction excavation where Les Halles market once was.
More details
author | Marco Ferreri Rafael Azcona |
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contentLocation | Paris |
director | Marco Ferreri |
editor | Ruggero Mastroianni |
genre | comedy western |
keywords | apartment building battle of the little bighorn buffalo bill buffalo bill cody build custer's last stand general george armstrong custer george armstrong custer last stand les halles mitch bouyer native american native americans in the united states sitting bull sweatshop |
musicBy | Philippe Sarde |
producer | Alain Sarde François Rochas Jean-Pierre Rassam Jean Yanne |
productionCompany | Films 66 Laser Production Mara Films |
publisher | |
recordedAt | Paris |
theme | parody satirical spaghetti western |