Tropic of Cancer

Henry Miller (novel)
Joseph Strick (director, screenwriter)
Betty Botley (screenwriter)
Rip Torn, James T. Callahan, Ellen Burstyn, David Baur (starring)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Tropic Film Productions, 1970. Original US one sheet poster for the 1970 X-rated film.

Based on Miller's 1934 groundbreaking novel of life and love in Paris, a book initially banned in the US. Miller (Torn) and his wife Ellen (Burstyn) dally in France's finer things, while he tries teaching English at a school in Dijon, takes a boy to a bordello, and aids his asylum-bound friend who's in love with a prostitute.

27 x 41 inches, folded. Studio stamp on the verso. Very Good plus, with small central holes, faint creases. Uncommon.


[Book #139851]