Directed by:
Robert Downey Sr.Screenplay:
Robert Downey Sr.Cinematography:
Gerald CottsComposer:
Charley CuvaCast:
Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Peter Benson, Allan Arbus, Antonio Fargas, Arnold Johnson, Robert Downey Sr., Marlene Clark, Pepi Hermine (more)Plots(1)
Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) is the only Black executive at a stuffy Madison Avenue advertising agency. When the chairman dies unexpectedly, Putney is 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." (Powerhouse Films)
(more)Cast
Stan Gottlieb
Best movies:
Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Putney Swope (1969)
The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Allen Garfield
USA
Best movies:
The Front Page (1974)
Taking Off (1971)
The Conversation (1974)
Elzbieta Czyzewska
Poland
Best movies:
Running on Empty (1988)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1964)
Music Box (1989)
Peter Benson
UK
Best movies:
The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980) (TV movie)
Merlin (1998) (TV movie)
Allan Arbus
USA
Best movies:
Crossroads (1986)
Law and Disorder (1974)
Coffy (1973)
Antonio Fargas
USA
Best movies:
The Gambler (1974)
Conrack (1974)
Across 110th Street (1972)
Arnold Johnson
USA
Best movies:
Rocky (1976)
American Hot Wax (1978)
Racing with the Moon (1984)
Robert Downey Sr.
USA
Best movies:
Magnolia (1999)
Boogie Nights (1997)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Marlene Clark
USA
Best movies:
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Lost Flight (1970) (TV movie)
Pepi Hermine
Best movies:
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Putney Swope (1969)
Peter Maloney
USA
Best movies:
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Der Zauberberg (1982)
K-Pax (2001)
Alan Abel
USA
Best movies:
Putney Swope (1969)
George Morgan
USA
Best movies:
Putney Swope (1969)
Greaser's Palace (1972)
Anthony Chisholm
USA
Best movies:
Reign Over Me (2007)
Going in Style (2017)
Beloved (1998)
Joe Madden
USA
Best movies:
Harry and Tonto (1974)
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
Putney Swope (1969)
Robert Staats
Best movies:
Putney Swope (1969)
That's Adequate (1989)
Mr. Billion (1977)
Lawrence Wolf
USA
Best movies:
Putney Swope (1969)
Greaser's Palace (1972)
Pound (1970)
Shelley Plimpton
USA
Best movies:
Putney Swope (1969)
Alice's Restaurant (1969)
Bob Larkin
USA
Best movies:
Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)
Putney Swope (1969)