Don't Touch the White Woman!
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Directed by | Marco Ferreri |
Written by | Marco Ferreri Rafael Azcona |
Produced by | Jean-Pierre Rassam Jean Yanne Alain Sarde François Rochas |
Starring | Marcello Mastroianni Catherine Deneuve Darry Cowl Alain Cuny Ugo Tognazzi Michel Piccoli Philippe Noiret Paolo Villaggio Franca Bettoia Monique Chaumette Francine Custer |
Cinematography | Étienne Becker |
Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
Music by | Philippe Sarde |
Distributed by | Image Entertainment |
Release date | 23 January 1974 |
Running time | 110 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Language | French |
Box office | $1,402,866[1] |
Don't Touch the White Woman! is a 1974 French-Italian farce, an absurdist Western set in Paris, directed by Marco Ferreri.[2]
Plot
A fictionalized version of Custer's Last Stand set at a real Paris, France building site. 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.
Cast
- Catherine Deneuve - Marie-Hélène de Boismonfrais
- Marcello Mastroianni - George A. Custer
- Michel Piccoli - Buffalo Bill
- Philippe Noiret - Gen. Terry
- Ugo Tognazzi - Mitch
- Alain Cuny - Sitting Bull
- Serge Reggiani - The Mad Indian
- Darry Cowl - Major Archibald
- Monique Chaumette - Sister Lucie
- Daniele Dublino - Daughter
- Henri Piccoli - Sitting Bull's Father
- Franca Bettoia - Rayon de Lune (as Franca Bettoja)
- Paolo Villaggio - The CIA agent
- Franco Fabrizi - Tom (as Franco Fabrizzi)
- Laurente Vedres - (as Vedres et Boutang)
See also
References
- ^ "Don't Touch the White Woman!". Jpbox-office.com.
- ^ "Don't Touch the White Woman!". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
External links
- 1974 films
- 1970s comedy films
- Films directed by Marco Ferreri
- French films
- French-language films
- French Western (genre) films
- Italian films
- Parody films
- French satirical films
- Western (genre) comedy films
- Films produced by Alain Sarde
- Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer
- Cultural depictions of Sitting Bull
- Cultural depictions of Buffalo Bill
- 1970s French film stubs
- 1970s Italian film stubs