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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1972 DVD Release: 07/11/2000 Format: DVD SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 30 mins Studio: Image Entertainment Members Wishing: 10 Genres: Comedy, Western, Satire, Musical Comedy, Hybrid Western, Religious Comedy

In Greaser's Palace, Alan Arbus plays a zoot-suited character named Jesse, who is not only a Christlike figure, he is Christ. En route to Jerusalem, where he hopes to find work as a "singer-dancer-actor," Jesse finds himself in a dusty western town. At first, he is targeted for extermination by town boss Seaweedhead Greaser (Albert Henderson) but all this changes when he brings Greaser's son Lamy (Michael Sullivan) back from the dead. Jesse's healing powers lead to all sorts of wacked-out complications and, inevitably, a bizarre confrontation with the town looney, exotic dancer Cholera (Luana Anders). A very young Robert Downey Jr. (the son of the director) appears as a Quasimodo-like child. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Elsie Downey - The Woman
Jackson Haynes - Rope Man
Alex Hitchcock - Nun
John Paul Hudson - Smiley
Larry Moyer - Captain Good
Don Smolen - Gip

Greaser's Palace, together with Zachariah, is one of the great "head" westerns of our time. Alan Arbus plays a zoot-suited character named Jesse, who is not only a Christlike figure, he is Christ! En route to Jerusalem, where he hopes to find work as a "singer-dancer-actor," Jesse finds himself in a dusty western town. At first, he is targeted for extermination by town boss Seaweedhead Greaser (Albert Henderson) but all this changes when he brings Greaser's son Lamy (Michael Sullivan) back from the dead. Jesse's healing powers lead to all sorts of wacked-out complications and, inevitably, a bizarre confrontation with the town looney, exotic dancer Cholera (Luana Anders). Somehow it's not surprising within the context of the film to confront such diverse supporting players as Toni Basil, Luana Anders and Herve Villechaize. In addition, a very young Robert Downey Jr. (the son of the director) appears as a Quasimodolike child. ~ All Movie Guide