Dancing Outlaw DVD

This is not the traditional version of "Dancing Outlaw" that is available on Amazon and others for around $50. The other reviewers were wondering why this is so expensive when it is available for less on the developers' web site. It is acutally $175 on the developers web site with only a few copies left. If you are a hard core Jesco fan -- you'll want this very limited edition. If not -- stick with the OG version for $50. As others have said -- this film is amazing. You'll quote it for years. The only comparable film is "My Brothers Keeper". However, Jesco has a great deal more humor to it -- in the fashion of a WV Mackenzie brother.

I had the world DVD premiere for this film in February 2005 at the South Charleston Museum in South Charleston, WV. Hundreds showed up - and for good reason. It is the best selling film ever made inside West Virginia - about a West Virginian. It is also the best short documentary about an unusual man and his life ever made, making my Top Ten list of all times - in Facets Multimedia. The director, Jacob Young, watched films by Les Blank and Errol Morris, and using some of their style and his own, created a masterpiece. At one time the state library of West Virginia had at least 8 copies of this film, loaning all of them out for a decade or more. It is hilarious, sad, tragic, insightful - and about everything else one can show in a film. It stands with any film, including Errol Morris' masterpieces like THE FOG OF WAR.

I have worn out 2 VHS copies of Dancing Outlaw..Freakish,Twisted,Laugh out loud FUNNY..and SCARY all at the same time. Anyone who enjoys the dark side of Americana will cherish this DVD... Jesco and his Kin remind us," only the strong survive and that's all".....

Dancing Outlaw is a classic documentary of a tap dancer and Elvis impersonator from Boone County, West Virginia. The documentary is both comical and sad but it gives a glimpse of life that you probably would not believe unless you saw it. I've first saw a dubbed version of this video several years ago that was of rather poor quality. I recently found "Dancing Outlaw" as well as "Dancing Outlaw II, Jesco Goes To Hollywood" both on a single DVD. The DVD is available for $49.95 on www.dancingoutlaw.com. I purchased the DVD and have now viewed the recently released DVD and it is of much better quality that the VHS tape and offers all the advantages of DVD including the viewing quality not diminishing with use and time.

What Amazon does not tell you in the above description is this DVD includes both "Dancing Outlaw" and "Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood" and the video viewing time is 101 minutes. Still $99 is too much to pay when you can get the identical video directly from the producer for 1/2 the price.

I own a copy and I highly recommend it.

This is an absolute gem of a documentary and will have you clutching yourself in hysterics. However, I'm stunned at the price. I can't imagine why the DVD price is in the stratosphere. I'm not pleased because it means fewer people are going to see a cult classic. I'm from WV so this film bowling me over really is saying something. Unfortunately, even with how awesome it is, I'm not sure I would pay $100 to see it. Good thing I have my copy off of PBS from years ago. I bet this is why it may be so expensive. They certainly didn't see any profit from the first go around when it unexpectedly took off. It was all off bootleg videos circulating.