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Don't Touch the White Woman!
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Wikipedia article
'Don't Touch the White Woman!' is a 1974 French-Italian Western comedy film 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.
Cast
* Catherine Deneuve - Marie-Hlne 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
* 'Mr. Freedom'
* 'Blazing Saddles'
* Revisionist Western
* Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer
References
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