The Legend of Frenchie King

• Brigitte Bardot: Louise
• Claudia Cardinale: Maria
• Michael J. Pollard: Sheriff
• Patty Shepard: Little Rain
• Micheline Presle: Amelie
• Henry Czarniak: Doc Miller
• Georges Beller: Marc
• Teresa Gimpera: Caroline
• Emma Cohen: Virginie
• Patrick Préjean: Luc
• Riccardo Salvino: Jean
• Valéry Inkijinoff: Spitting Bull

Petroleum - chicks ( Original title: Les pétroleuses ) is a spaghetti western comedy by Christian - Jaque, the 1971 Alternative title is The arsonists. .

Action

1880, Bougival Junction, New Mexico. The French establishment is controlled by Marie Sarrazin and her family and is valuable because of the oil reserves. When the Miller family, which has won a ranch in a poker game, arrives in the city, it turns out with the time that they are the daughters of the hanged outlaw Frenchie King. The eldest daughter Louise leads in externals as in their behavior to her father's behavior continued. Both families come together. After a fight with Maria Louise of both women are sent to prison, where they team up to take on the men of the settlement after their release revenge. The overworked sheriff struggles can not put a stop to be completed only by various weddings that verbandeln the families Sarrazin and Miller with one another.

Reviews

" Only for fans of women's fights. "

The lexicon of the International film proclaims: " One more bad than good staged, moderately entertaining slapstick, go under the parodic approaches in chaos. "

Background

As early as 1965 turned Brigitte Bardot Viva Maria! a Western comedy, then with Jeanne Moreau at her side.

Claudia Cardinale starred in the classic Western The Professionals (1966) and play me the song of death (1968).

The film songs called " The Ballad of Frenchie King " sung by Sammy Gaha, " La Vie Parisienne", interpreted by Micheline Presle and " Prairie Women", the Claudia Cardinale argues.