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List Price: $24.99 | | Label: Image Entertainment
Salesrank: 56916
Released: July 11, 2000 |
| Our Price: $200.00 |
| Used Price: $110.00 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A combination of the Old West and the New Testament; a zoot-suited drifter (Allan Arbus) discovers his true calling and begins to perform miracles. What he really prefers though is doing his boogie-woogie song-and-dance act. In his wanderings he attracts many followers and finally gets to play The Palace, a saloon run by ruthless Seaweed Greaser (Albert Henderson). The act is a success, but Greaser's spoiled daughter, Cholera (Luana Anders), his hitherto star, is furious--"A man with holes in his hands is a bigger hit than me?"--and all according to the Gospel of cult filmmaker Robert Downey (Putney Swope, Pound).
Greaser's Palace Reviews:
review of the download 
2009-11-11 - As someone else said, "Amazing in the way it effects people". My ex would not talk to me for 3 days whenever she saw me watching this on cable.
It is great to have the $10 version available, but I'm dissappointed by the sound quality. The lack of sync is annoying, and there are various "skips", notably in Cholera's opening song.
Still, if you like it but don't have $100 you should get this.
If you don't know if you like it, you should definitely do the rental.
Greaser's Palace 
2008-04-26 - I'm surprised at how many people have missed that this movie is a not
to subtle send up of Bergman films. The lady who undergoes tragedy
after tragedy, represents long suffering humanity, and there is
a scene where Jesus is leading his followers over the hills, that
came straight out of "The Seventh Seal". Nonetheless it is a wonderful
movie, but perhaps not for the faint of heart, or overly religious.
Can be found for less than collector prices
2008-01-11 - This can be found as a dvdr copy if you look hard enough.
The "collector" prices are hard to swallow.
Eh. 
2007-06-25 - I had high hopes for this movie, hoping that it would become one of those bizzaro flicks that was worthy of actually buying, but bad editing/directing, horrible overdubbing and sound design, shot/scenes that linger wayyyyy to long (which could be easily forgiven if it werent for the tedious plot) make it almost unwatchable.
If you want something thats surreal, I suggest Jodorowsy's Holy Mountain. If you want something that will offend the religious folk, try Ken Russels "The Devils."
unforgettable classic, brilliant!
2007-03-05 - I saw this movie several times in the 70s at the Texas Union Theater on the UT campus and elsewhere around Austin. I have NEVER forgotten it, though I had to do a backwards search to determine that it was Alan Arbus who played Jesus parachuting from the sky (Arbus also played Dr. Sydney Freedman on the MASH television series.) Can't say enough about it -- the symbolism, the sets, the acting, the plot are all superb. This is perhaps the best parody ever -- and one that has not yet been re-discovered. I think it's just a matter of time.
