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Greaser's Palace is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Robert Downey Sr. released in USA on 31 july 1972 with Allan Arbus
Greaser's Palace (1972)
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Add to a movie listGreaser's Palace is a 1972 American acid western cult film directed by underground filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. A parable based on the life of Christ, it utilizes surrealist comedy in a setting of America's frontier days.
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Greaser's Palace follows Jesse (Allan Arbus), a Christ-like figure in a zoot-suit, on his way to Jerusalem to find work as a singer-dancer-actor. In a run-down Western town, he runs afoul of the local boss, Seaweedhead Greaser (Albert Henderson), until he brings Greaser's son Lamy (Michael Sullivan) back from the dead.Actors
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