Rating: NR
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 03/16/1999
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: French
Sound: 1/5.1
Run Time: 110 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Image Entertainment

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, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Marcello Mastroianni - George Armstrong Custer
Michel Piccoli - Buffalo Bill
Catherine Deneuve - Marie-Helene de Boismonfrais
Ugo Tognazzi - Mitch
Philippe Noiret - Terry
Alain Cuny - Sitting Bull
Serge Reggiani - Mad One
Paolo Villaggio - The CIA agent

Production:
Marco Ferreri - Director
Jean Yanne Jean-Pierre Rassam - Producer
Philippe Sarde - Composer
Ruggero Mastroianni - Editor
Rafael Azcona Marco Ferreri - Screen Writer
Etienne Becker - Cinematographer
Gino de Rossi - Special Effects
Lina Nerli Taviani - Costume Designer

1974 Telluride Film Festival