The elder Downey tells the story of Jesus Christ as it was truly meant to be told: as a raunchy, vaudevillian, existentialist Western starring Allan Arbus, Herve Villechaize, and a cigar-chomping Holy Ghost. Somehow, it’s even weirder than it sounds.

Greaser’s Palace
1972
dir. Robert Downey, Sr.
91 min.

Part of the ongoing series: Furious and Furiouser