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Category: Western
All Genres: Western
Release Year: 1970
Country: Mexico
Runtime: 125
Rating: 8.1 (0)
Languages: Spanish
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: Alejandro Jodorowsky – (written by) (as Alexandro Jodorowsky)

Produced by: Juan López Moctezuma – producer
Moshe Rosemberg – producer (as Moishe Rosemberg)
Saúl Rosemberg – producer
Roberto Viskin – executive producer

Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky – El Topo
Brontis Jodorowsky – Son of El Topo, as a boy
José Legarreta – Dying Man
Alfonso Arau – Bandit #1
José Luis Fernández – Bandit #2
Alf Junco – Bandit #3 (as Alí Junco)
Gerardo Zepeda – Bandit #4 (as Gerardo Cepeda)
René Barrera – Bandit #5
René Alís – Bandit #6
Federico Gonzáles – Bandit #7
Vicente Lara – Bandit #8

Music: Alejandro Jodorowsky Nacho Méndez
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Plot Outline: The gunfighter El Topo (“The Mole”) and his young son ride through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred…
Plot: The gunfighter El Topo (“The Mole”) and his young son ride through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred. Bandits are nearby, torturing and killing the survivors. El Topo rescues a woman (Mara), who leads him on a mission to find and defeat the four master gunmen of the desert. Leaving his son with a group of monks, El Topo and Mara complete the mission, accompanied by a mysterious woman in black. The women leave El Topo wounded in the desert, where he is found by a clan of deformed people who take him to the remote cavern where they live. Awakening years later, he goes with a dwarf woman to a nearby town, promising to dig a tunnel through which the cave-dwellers can escape. They find the town run by a vicious sheriff and home to a bizarre religious cult. El Topos son, now a man, is a monk in the town. The completion of the tunnel leads El Topo, the townspeople, and the cave-dwellers to a bloody and tragic end.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The closing credits in the English-dubbed version of El Topo state that ABKCO Films copyrighted the film in 1967; however, ABKCO didnt purchase (any rights to) it until June of 1971!

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Big Jim is so delirious that he thinks The Lone Prospector is a chicken, The Lone Prospector removes a knife from the table and hides it in the bed. In one of the next shots, the knife is back on the table. Then in the next shot it is gone again.

Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Used sets left over from Day of the Evil Gun (1968).
• First released as an underground film, it was thanks to John Lennon that the film acquired a worldwide distribution. He was so impressed by this movie that he urged a close friend of his to buy the rights and take charge of distribution.
• The title of the movie and the main characters name are a metaphor of the underground cinema in the sixties. The mole digs holes so as to emerge from the underground to the surface. This was happening with some low-budget movies that quickly gained mainstream popularity.