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Putney Swope Director: Robert Downey Sr. Cast: Stanley Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Arnold Johnson, Buddy Butler

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  • DVD Release Date: 08/01/2006
  • Original Release: 1969
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 12,505

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Closed Caption; Interview with Robert Downey Sr.; Commentary by Robert Downey Sr.; Liner notes

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Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Putney Swope
1. A Beer Commercial [6:20]
2. Democratic Process; Main Title [7:08]
3. A New Deal That's So Real [7:22]
4. Jackals at the Door [3:27]
5. Very Special Employees [7:55]
6. Militant Directives [5:01]
7. Dealing With the Establishment [7:43]
8. Campaign for the New Generation [2:05]
9. Pillow Talk or Walk! [6:37]
10. Executive Board Meeting [2:03]
11. Very Provocative Advertisements [5:52]
12. Creative Disagreements [4:43]
13. Media Sensation [2:17]
14. Billy's Pal [3:23]
15. Assassination Attempt [2:35]
16. Swope Loses Hope [5:23]
17. Profit Sharing [3:12]
18. End Credits [1:42]

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Editorial Reviews

After several years working along the margins of the underground film scene in New York, director Robert Downey broke through to wider recognition with the arthouse hit Putney Swope, a wildly irreverent satire of race and advertising in America. Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) is the token African-American executive at an otherwise all-white advertising agency when the chairman of the board unexpectedly drops dead. Through a fluke in the chain of command, Swope becomes the new head of the firm, and decides its time to do things his way. He fires nearly all the staff (except for his one token white employee), renames the agency Truth and Soul, Inc., and announces they'll no longer accept accounts advertising tobacco, alcohol, or war toys. The ads they do produce -- for acne remedies and breakfast cereal, among other things -- are wildly successful, and the iconoclastic ad agency (which only accepts payment in cash) is targeted by government operatives as a threat to the national security. Antonio Fargas and Allen Garfield lead the supporting cast; Mel Brooks makes a cameo appearance. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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April 01, 2004: You'll laugh so hard, that you'll cry ... long before there was 'Living Color,' 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'Mad TV,' there was 'Putney Swope.' It's really too bad that Robert Downey Sr. never had another commercial success. In many ways, Downey Sr. is the anti-Ed Woods--i.e., someone with real talent who has created films that are truly honest and faithful to his own vision.

This review was written about the DVD Black & White edition.