Don't Touch the White Woman!

Don't Touch the White Woman!
Theatrical release poster by Jean Giraud
FrenchTouche pas à la femme blanche !
Directed byMarco Ferreri
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyÉtienne Becker
Edited byRuggero Mastroianni
Music byPhilippe Sarde
Production
companies
  • Mara Films
  • Films 66
  • Laser Production
  • PEA
Distributed byCFDC (France)
Release dates
  • 23 January 1974 (1974-01-23) (France)
  • 12 March 1975 (1975-03-12) (Italy)
Running time
110 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Italy
LanguageFrench
Box office$1,402,866[1]

Don't Touch the White Woman! (French: Touche pas à la femme blanche !) is a 1974 French-Italian Western comedy film co-written and directed by Marco Ferreri.[2]

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.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ "Touche pas à la femme blanche (1974)". JP Box-Office (in French).
  2. ^ "Don't Touch the White Woman!". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2009.


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