The Madwoman of Chaillot is a 1969 American satirical film made by Commonwealth United Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.

The film stars Katharine Hepburn with Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans and Donald Pleasence.

[5][6] The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.

A group of prominent men—The Reverend, The General, The Commissar, The Chairman and The Broker—meet at a café to discuss how they can increase their already massive fortunes.

They do, and he reveals that the earth of Chaillot is “soggy with oil.” They resolve to acquire the mineral rights, with or without the consent of the people of Paris.

Countess Aurelia, the "madwoman" of the title, learns of this plan to drill for oil under the very streets of her district from Roderick – an activist and nephew-by-marriage to the Prospector – and The Ragpicker.

[7] In The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote "Forbes, who persists in making conventional films of unconventional properties ("Whistle Down The Wind", "The Wrong Box") moves his cameras around quite a lot, but there is really little he can do to hide the fact that "The Madwoman of Chaillot" is—as it was 20 years ago—an incredibly precious theatrical conceit, just the sort of thing somebody might think would make a great Broadway musical comedy.