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El Topo (literally translates to "The Mole"), the 1969 Alejandro Jodorowsky Mexican bizarre south-of-the-border difficult-to-comprehend surreal cowboy revenge western (about a gunfighter named El Topo, who is traveling on horseback in Mexico with his young son, who is naked, and he passes through a town where most of the inhabitants were slaughtered by gunmen, and he sets out to kill those responsible) starring Brontis Jodorowsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jose Legarreta, Alfonso Arau, and David Silva. There is much that is unclear about the initial release of this movie. Jodorowsky made it in Mexico in 1969, apparently not intending it to be released in his home country. It was shown in a private screening at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970, and Ben Barenholtz, the owner of the Elgin Theater (a New York City arthouse theater), was able to arrange for a single midnight showing at the Elgin Theater, and its successful reception led to an engagement at the Elgin Theater from December 1970 to June 1971. Some say that John Lennon saw and loved the movie, and finally, in 1975, he reportedly helped it gain a national distributor (ABKCO Films, owned by Allen Klein, The Beatles' manager), and it was distributed throughout the U.S. in 1975, mostly in midnight showings, due to the controversial nature of the movie. Prior to 1975, the movie never had a normal release, and many prints of it had portions cut out, but it did finally receive an official DVD release in 2007. Since the early 1990s, Jodorowsky tried to make a sequel to this movie. In 1996, a teaser one-sheet was released, but no filming had been started. It was originally intended to be called "Los Hijos del Topo" (The Sons of El Topo), but Allen Klein claimed ownership of the title "El Topo", and Jodorowsky changed the sequel title to "Abelcain", and the name of the lead character to "El Toro" (The Bull). In 2002, it was said that Marilyn Manson was going to star in the movie, but the project never ended up being filmed, but finally, in 2016, a graphic novel version of the sequel was released, called "Sons of El Topo".
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Important Added Info: Note that while this poster is technically a 1975 re-release, we have never seen posters predating it from any country (and even these 1975 re-release posters are incredibly rare)! There were two one-sheets created, one a "teaser" poster, and one with reviews of the movie. As noted above, this film only had a limited release in New York City in 1971 and it is quite possible that there were no printed posters for these showings. In 1973, Jodorowsky made Holy Mountain, and that too had limited release, until both films were picked up by ABKCO films and given a wide release in 1975 (in the U.S. and in other countries). If anyone has ever seen any poster from this movie other than the two 1975 re-release one-sheets, please e-mail us and we will post it here.
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