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.

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Cast

Catherine Deneuve as Marie-Hélène de Boismonfrais

Marcello Mastroianni as George A. Custer

Michel Piccoli as Buffalo Bill

Philippe Noiret as Gen. Terry

Ugo Tognazzi as Mitch

Alain Cuny as Sitting Bull

Serge Reggiani as The Mad Indian

Darry Cowl as Major Archibald

Monique Chaumette as Sister Lucie

Daniele Dublino asdaughter

Henri Piccoli as Sitting Bull's father

Franca Bettoia as Rayon de Lune (as Franca Bettoja) Paolo Villaggio as CIA agent Franco Fabrizi as Tom (as Franco Fabrizzi) Laurente Vedres as (as Vedres et Boutang)

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See also

Mr. Freedom

Blazing Saddles

Revisionist Western

Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer

References

External links

1974 films

1974 comedy films

1970s French films

1970s French-language films

1970s Italian films

1970s parody films

1970s satirical films

1970s Western (genre) comedy films

Cultural depictions of Buffalo Bill

Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer

Cultural depictions of Sitting Bull

Films directed by Marco Ferreri

Films produced by Alain Sarde

Films scored by Philippe Sarde

Films set in Paris

Films shot in Paris

Films with screenplays by Rafael Azcona

French parody films

French satirical films

French Western (genre) comedy films

French-language Italian films

Italian parody films

Italian satirical films

Italian Western (genre) comedy films

Spaghetti Western films

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