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.
Contents
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 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 as daughter
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)