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Putney Swope (1969)
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Robert Downey Sr. (writer)
Release Date:
10 July 1969 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Truth and Soul Movie more
Plot:
Dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge...
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Satire
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Advertising
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Absurd Humor
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(2 articles)
Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 9/29/2009
(From Fangoria. 26 September 2009, 10:56 PM, PDT)
List: Counting Down Ten Sadly Underseen Films
(From IFC. 31 July 2008, 6:56 AM, PDT)
(From Fangoria. 26 September 2009, 10:56 PM, PDT)
List: Counting Down Ten Sadly Underseen Films
(From IFC. 31 July 2008, 6:56 AM, PDT)
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One of the funniest movies of all time...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Stan Gottlieb | ... | Nathan (as Stanley Gottlieb) |
| Allen Garfield | ... | Elias, Jr. |
| Archie Russell | ... | Joker |
| Ramon Gordon | ... | Bissinger |
| Bert Lawrence | ... | Hawker |
| Joe Madden | ... | Mr. Syllables (as Joe Engler) |
| Arnold Johnson | ... | Putney Swope |
| David Kirk | ... | Elias Sr. |
| Don George | ... | Mr. Cards |
| Buddy Butler | ... | Putney's Bodyguard |
| Vincent Hamill | ... | Man in White Suit |
| Tom Odachi | ... | Wing Soney |
| Ching Yeh | ... | Wing Soney Jr. |
| Spunky-Funk Johnson | ... | Mr. Major |
| Joe Fields | ... | Pittsburgh Willie |
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84 min
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Robert Downey Sr. redubbed all of Arnold Johnson's lines. According to Downey, he did this because Johnson had trouble remembering his lines and often flubbed them during filming.
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Quotes:
Putney Swope:
Rockin' the boat's a drag. You gotta sink the boat!
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Movie Connections:
Edited into Afro Promo (1997)
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I saw this movie in its brief run in "art house" cinema in '69. I found it so funny that I literally spent part of the movie on the floor, having laughed so hard I fell out of my seat. In retrospect, years later, I thought it had been done by Melvin Van Peebles. When I mentioned it to a friend, he said that a friend of his, Downey Sr., filled virtually every non-acting role in the flick: Director, writer producer, etc. He was right of course, and my memory was wrong, except that this WAS one of the funnies movies ever made. The part of "the Arab" was particularly priceless.