Don't Touch The White Woman!
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| Don't Touch The White Woman! | |
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| Directed by | Marco Ferreri |
| Produced by | Jean-Pierre Rassam, Jean Yanne, Alain Sarde, François Rochas |
| Written by | Rafael Azcona, Marco Ferreri |
| Starring | Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Darry Cowl, Alain Cuny, Ugo Tognazzi, Franca Bettoia, Monique Chaumette, Francine Custer |
| Music by | Philippe Sarde |
| Cinematography | Étienne Becker |
| Editing by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Distributed by | Image Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | January 23, 1974 |
| Running time | 110 min. (approx.) |
| Country | France Italy |
| Language | French |
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Don't Touch The White Woman! is a 1974 French/Itallian farce, an absurd "Western" set in Paris, with Marcello Mastroianni as a vain General George Armstrong Custer. Richard Nixon is the American president. Buffalo Bill Cody (Michel Piccoli) is here portrayed as a charlatan media impresario. Ugo Tognazzi gives a fictional portrayal of Mitch Bouyer one of Custer's Native American scouts; who runs a curio shop selling Native artifacts made in sweatshops by white women. Alain Cuny plays Sitting Bull who must defend his people when their homes (apartment buildings) are destroyed by the Union Cavalry. The the movie climaxes with the Battle of the Little Bighorn held in a large construction excavation where Les Halles market used to be. The language used to justify the conflict parodies the Vietnam War and the Algerian War.
