Don't Touch the White Woman

Don't Touch the White Woman (1973)

Genres - Western, Action, Adventure, Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Political Satire, Satire, Absurd Comedy, Military Comedy  |   Run Time - 120 min.  |   Countries - France, Italy  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain

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.

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conflict, death, exterminator, France, frontier, genocide, history, Indian (Native-American)-scout, land, massacre, Native-American, nightclub, overbearing, politician, scout, settler, shop, store, troops, warning, woman