A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 3 nominations total
Gerardo Zepeda
- Bandido 4
- (as Gerardo Cepeda)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaOther noteworthy figures said to be fans of the film, besides John Lennon and Yoko Ono, include directors David Lynch and Samuel Fuller, actors Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, and performers Bob Dylan, Marilyn Manson, and Peter Gabriel. It has been claimed that this movie was the beginning of Gabriel's inspiration for the classic Genesis concept album, 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'.
- GoofsThe opening scene is of a man on horseback riding through the desert, although the horse is on deep sand the sound is of a horse on hard ground.
- Crazy creditsThe closing credits in the English-dubbed version of El Topo state that ABKCO Films copyrighted the film in 1967; however, ABKCO didn't purchase (any rights to) it until June of 1971!
- Alternate versionsMany Spanish and other non-English versions are censored, missing most of the sex and violence. Japanese prints on laserdisc have one piece of minor censorship (the scene with the Franciscan monks being ridden and humiliated).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky (1991)
Featured review
An almost impossible film to quantify and as crazy today as the guy who conjured it up over 50 years ago. Is it a Western or Religion or both? Whatever it is it's sure to bend your mind.
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $80,302
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,857
- Dec 17, 2006
- Gross worldwide
- $161,267
- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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