Don't Touch the White Woman (1974)

Synopsis of Don't Touch the White Woman

Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain General George Armstrong Custer. Richard Nixon is the American president, but everyone is costumed appropriately for the previous century. Buffalo Bill (Michel Piccoli), the famous scout, is here portrayed as a limp-wristed bungler. Ugo Tognazzi plays one of Custer's Native American opponents; he runs a curio shop selling Native artifacts made in sweatshops by white women. The climactic battle is held in a large construction excavation where Les Halles market used to be. The language the two sides use to justify their conflict is lifted from that used in the then-current Vietnam War. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:

109 mins

Director(s):

Marco Ferreri

Writer(s):

Rafael Azcona, Marco Ferreri

Producer(s):

Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Rassam

Categories:

Comedy

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