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Putney Swope

Putney Swope

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Release Date: 17/02/2025

Edition: Restored
Genre: Drama
Region Code: Region B
Certificate: 15
Label: Powerhouse Films
Actors: Arnold Johnson, Laura Greene, Buddy Butler, Anthony Fargas, Paul Alladice, Fred Hirschhorn, Allen Garfield, Luise Heath, Spunky Funk Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Antonio Fargas, Chuck Green, Robert Downey
Director: Robert Downey, Robert Downey Sr.
Number of Discs: 1
Duration: 85 minutes
Audio Languages: English
Subtitle Languages: Hard of Hearing English

Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, Shaft) is the only Black executive at a stuffy Madison Avenue advertising agency. When the chairman dies unexpectedly, Putney is unexpectedly elected the new boss - because those voting never thought anyone else would to do the same. Putney proceeds to kick out the white majority, replacing them with young, revolutionary types, and renames the agency Truth and Soul. A bracing satire, taking well-aimed pot-shots at capitalism, power and racism in America, Robert Downey's Putney Swope is a key entry in counterculture cinema, and a landmark of independent filmmaking, and - after more than a half a century - is still very, very funny.

Special Features: Bonus Footage, Commentary: Robert Downey Sr.; Sergio Mims (film critic/historian)., Image Gallery, Interviews: Robert Downey Sr. (writer/director); Gerald Cotts (cinematographer)., Trailer commentary (2013): Short critical appreciation by Dan Ireland (film producer); Film Forum Q&A with Robert Downey (2016)., Trailers
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