Anyone Seen Greaser's Palace?

[Least_Original_User_Name_Ever]

It’s an old movie. Apparently, my dad gonzomax, wants to know how “with-it” you folks are.

I’ve never seen it. All I know about it is that it’s a crazy ass movie and that there’s something about Jesus wearing a zoot suit.

[gonzomax]

Greasers Palace came out in 1972. The movie starts with a guy parachuting down into the old west in a Zoot suit. He is Christ, He perform miracles but really wants to be a song and dance man in th Palace. The owner of the palce is the town big shot who shoots his son fot thinking he may be gay. Jesus keeps bringing him back. It is a little weird.
The town big shot is horribly constipated and the well being of the town rides on his sucess. Every time he goes into the can a mari achi band appears.

[RealityChuck]

I haven’t seen it, but would love to. It was directed by Robert Downey (a Prince) – before you had to suffix his name with a “Sr.” Downey’s Putney Swope was one of the great forgotten films of the 60s, and I would love to see anything else he did – Pound, too.

[Moe]

My contribution to the “stump the dope with your most obscure reference” thread a few months ago.

Love that movie.

That, kids, is what LSD does to the brain.

[Moe]

"I bring you a message. Exactly six miles north of Skagg Mountain in the Valley of Pain, there lives an evil devil-monster. His name is Bingo Gas Station Motel Cheeseburger With A Side Of Aircraft Noise And You’ll Be Gary Indiana. And he loves to hurt people. The last time I saw Bingo Gas Station Motel Cheeseburger With A Side Of Aircraft Noise And You’ll Be Gary Indiana, he told me what he wants to do. He wants to come down here and kill each and every one of you! But I said to him: “Bingo, wait a minute.” And the reason I said that is because I believe in you people. I believe you can do the job. I believe you can help each other. I believe you can make this world a better place to live in. That’s it. "

Thanks imdb.

[Wendell_Wagner]

It’s a movie from the 1970’s without even the small cult that it had back then. It gets a 5.5 rating (out of 10) with only 224 votes on the IMDb. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t good. Thirty- or forty-year-old movies are re-released or put on DVD for the first time every once in a while without even a reasonably-sized cult audience that’s been waiting for them, and some of them turn out to be mildly popular releases.

[lissener]

Here’s a review I wrote of it for The Scarecrow Video Movie Guide.

Though rife with anachronisms (they’re kind of a leitmotif), this film is very dated: it could only be from the end of the sixties. Greaser’s Palace stars Allan Arbus (of TV’s MAS*H) as the Zoot-suited Jessy, who drops out of the sky—with a modern parachute—into the Old West. A series of perplexing but hilarious non sequiturs reveals that he is trying to find his way to Jerusalem to be a “singer/actor”; that he (rather perfunctorily) heals the sick and raises the dead; that he dances better on the surface of a lake than on a stage; and that bleeding from the palms of his hands is his likeliest ticket to fame. The dusty little town is run by the publicly constipated and inexplicably named Seaweedhead Greaser (the local saloon is the eponymous Palace), who keeps his loving mother in a cage; kills his son Lamy Homo again every time Jessy resurrects him; and is inordinately proud of his daughter Cholera, who really packs ‘em in at the Palace. Not to mention the subplot of a woman, who seems to represent the whole of humanity in the film’s odd cosmography, having a VERY BAD DAY at the distant hands (they never share the frame) of a white-bearded old man who can shoot real bullets with an imaginary gun. Confusion reigns, but it’s a hoot nonetheless. Oh, plus there’s Toni Basil riding a horse topless.