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A strange man named Jesse who can revive life and walk on water comes into a surreal and cruel western town.A strange man named Jesse who can revive life and walk on water comes into a surreal and cruel western town.A strange man named Jesse who can revive life and walk on water comes into a surreal and cruel western town.
Lawrence Wolf
- French Padre
- (as Larry Wolf)
Woodrow Chambliss
- Father
- (as Woody Chambliss)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaAmerican film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum used the term "Acid Western" to describe this film as well as the Jim Jarmusch film "Dead Man." The term "acid western" was first coined by film critic Pauline Kael in reference to Alejandro Jodorowsky's film "El Topo."
- GoofsIn the scene where the girl wakes to find her lover's throat cut she stands up wearing partially see-thru period underwear and you can see she is wearing tight-fitting modern panties underneath.
- Quotes
Lamy Homo Greaser: Dad, I was swimming in a rainbow with millions of babies... and they was naked... and then all of the sudden I turned into a perfect smile!
Old guy: Put a rope around the son of a bitch!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Remembering Greasers Palace (2010)
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Jesus plays the palace
Quite simply one of the odder incarnations of a Jesus story: in a desolate town in the middle of a borax desert in the late 19th century, where Herod has a serious case of constipation, the holy ghost is a cigar smoking actor under a white sheet with eye-holes and a mouth cutout, and Jesse aka Jesus wants to be a song and dance man. But the people won't let him be. Alan Arbus is dry and laid back in the role, always puzzled and not at all a mystery. Downey hit the high point of his career with this one, possibly the last movie he made without someone looking over his shoulder. I wish he'd the opportunity to continue exploring filmmaking of this type.
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- kayester
- Mar 11, 1999
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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