Don't Touch the White Woman!

Don't Touch the White Woman!

Directed by	Marco Ferreri
Produced by	Jean-Pierre Rassam Jean Yanne Alain Sarde François Rochas
Written by	Marco Ferreri Rafael Azcona
Starring	Marcello Mastroianni Catherine Deneuve Darry Cowl Alain Cuny Ugo Tognazzi Michel Piccoli Philippe Noiret Paolo Villaggio Franca Bettoia Monique Chaumette Francine Custer
Music by	Philippe Sarde
Cinematography	Étienne Becker
Edited by	Ruggero Mastroianni
Distributed by	Image Entertainment
Release dates	23 January 1974
Running time	110 minutes
Country	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 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.

Films directed by Marco Ferreri

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