Themes: Bohemian Life, Americans Abroad, Writer's Life
Main Cast: Rip Torn, James Callahan, Ellen Burstyn, David Bauer, Laurence Ligneres
Release Year: 1970
Country: US
Run Time: 87 minutes
MPAA Rating: NC17
Plot
Three years after cinematizing James Joyce's long-censored Ulysses, Joseph Strick mounted an adaptation of another racy literary work -- Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. Rip Torn plays Miller, an American expatriate author living -- and loving -- in 1920s Paris. The much-vaunted sex scenes were hot enough in 1970 to earn the film an X-rating, and an NC-17 when the film was re-rated in 1992. Ellen Burstyn (then billed as Ellen MacRae) has a few effective scenes as Miller's long-suffering wife, Mona; Phil Kaufman later elaborated on her character in the 1990 film Henry & June. Henry Miller himself appears in Tropic of Cancer, billed as a "spectator." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Phil Brown - Van Norden; Gisele Grimm - Germaine; Ginette Leclerc - Madame Hamilton; Magali Noël - The Princess; Sabine Sun - Elsa; Philippe Gaste - Train Passenger; Roger Lumont - Cafe Patron; Guy Marly - Dog Lover; Ed Marcus - Boris; Henry Miller - Spectator; Raymond Gerome - Headmaster
Credit
Betty Botley - Associate Producer, Jean-Michel Lacor - First Assistant Director, Joseph Strick - Director, Sidney Meyers - Editor, Sylvia Sarner - Editor, Stanley Myers - Composer (Music Score), Alain Derobe - Cinematographer, Joseph Strick - Producer, Joseph Strick - Screenwriter, Betty Botley - Screenwriter, Henry Miller - Book Author
