Petroleum chicks

Movie
German title	Petroleum chicks
Original title	Les Pétroleuses
Country of production	Italy , France , Spain , Great Britain
original language	French
Publishing year	1971
length	88 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Christian-Jaque
script	Marie-Ange Aniès , Jean Nemours
production	Francis Cosne , Raymond Erger
music	Francis Lai
camera	Henri Persin
cut	Nicole Gauduchon , Henri Taverna
occupation
Brigitte Bardot : Louise Claudia Cardinale : Marie Sarrazin Michael J. Pollard : Sheriff Micheline Presle : Aunt Amelie Patrick Préjean : Luc Sarrazin Georges Beller : Marc Sarrazin Riccardo Salvino : Jean Sarrazin Oscar Davis : Mathieu Sarrazin Emma Cohen : Virginie Teresa Gimpera : Caroline Patty Shepard : Little Rain Marie-Ange Aniès : Constance Henry Czarniak : Doc Miller Valéry Inkijinoff : Spitting Bull Leroy Haynes : Marquis Jacques Jouanneau : Letellier, the landlord France Dougnac : Elisabeth

The Legend of Frenchie King (Original title: Les Pétroleuses ) is a spaghetti western -Komödie of Christian-Jaque from the year 1971 . The alternative title is Die Brandstifterinnen .

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, who won a ranch playing poker, arrive in town, it turns out that they are the daughters of the hanged outlaw Frenchie King. The eldest daughter Louise continues the behavior of her father in outward appearances and in her behavior. Both families clash. After a fight between Louise and Marie, both women are sent to prison, where they join forces to take revenge on the men of the settlement after their release. The overwhelmed sheriff cannot put a stop to the fighting, which is only ended by various weddings, which also bind the Sarrazin and Miller families together.

Reviews

“Western clothes with the scantily clad duo Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale. Conclusion: only for fans of women fights. "

- cinema.de

"A more badly than quite staged, moderately entertaining slapstick, whose parodic approaches are drowned in chaos."

- Lexicon of international film

background

Brigitte Bardot was already filming with Viva Maria in 1965 ! a western comedy, then with Jeanne Moreau at her side.

Claudia Cardinale played leading roles in the western classics Die feared Four (1966) and Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod (1968).

In the film, The Ballad of Frenchie King is sung by Sammy Gaha , La vie Parisienne by Micheline Presle and Prairie Women by Claudia Cardinale .

Web links

• The Legend of Frenchie King in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Petroleum chicks. In: Cinema . Hubert Burda Media , accessed on April 2, 2018 . 
2. ^ Petroleum chicks. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .