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It’s like if David Lynch and the Coen Brothers made a Troma movie. Checked IMDB and Wikipedia expecting all sorts of background on the making of it but there is very little. Compared to Eraserhead, El Topo, I Am Curious Yellow, and other “midnight movies” of that era there doesn’t seem to be as big of a following.
Robert Downey Sr. Robert John Downey (nacido Robert John Elias Jr.; 1 Nueva York, 24 de junio de 1936-Nueva York, 7 de julio de 2021) 2 fue un actor y director de cine estadounidense, padre del también actor Robert Downey Jr. 3 Durante su carrera dirigió películas consideradas clásicos de culto, como Putney Swope. 4 .
About this movie. When its chairman dies, an advertising firm's executive board must elect someone to fill the position. Each member, unable to vote for himself, casts a secret ballot for Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson), the firm's only black executive, assuming he wouldn't receive any votes from the other members. But once in power, Swope makes ...
ROBERT Downey's "Putney Swope," which opened yesterday at the Cinema II, more or less details the rise and rise of a black Madison Avenue ad agency called Truth and Soul. To be as precise as is ...
A hallmark of 1960s radicalism and one of the first major underground films, Robert Downey Sr.'s seminal Putney Swope remains a classic of social satire. After the CEO croaks during a boardroom meeting at a Madison Avenue ad agency, members trying to sabotage each other's chance of winning the top spot each vote for the token black guy, thereby electing Putney Swope.
Putney Swope is the token black man on the executive board of a large Madison Avenue advertising agency. During a promotional meeting, the elderly company chairman, while addressing the board, drops dead of a heart attack. The other board members vote to elect a successor and, through a company rule which prohibits voting for oneself, Swope wins by a landslide because every member thinks ...
Putney Swope. Comedy 1969. R. 1h 25m. After the death of the previous chairman, a Black employee on Madison Avenue becomes his agency's new president and makes some radical changes. Arnold Johnson, Pepi Hermine, Allen Garfield. Get Started. Home.
