Putney Swope (Blu-ray + DVD)
Don't Rock the boat… Sink it.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 2, 2019
- Originally Released: 1969
- Label: Vinegar Syndrome
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Arnold Johnson | |
| Performer: | George Morgan, Allen Garfield, Stan Gottlieb, Laura Greene, Pepi Hermine, Bert Lawrence, Antonio Fargas & Allan Arbus | |
| Directed by | Robert Downey, Sr. | |
| Edited by | Bud Smith | |
| Screenwriting by | Robert Downey, Sr. | |
| Composition by | Charley Cuva | |
| Art Direction by | Gary Weist | |
| Produced by | Robert Downey, Sr. & Ron Sullivan | |
| Director of Photography: | Gerald Cotts | |
| Voice: | Robert Downey, Sr. |
Entertainment Reviews:
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The situations include political caricature, but disappointedly nothing much beyond marginal interest occurs. The comedy is only intermittently funny and the satire is mostly shallow and obvious.
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Variety
Rating: B- --
A way of giving the middle finger to Madison Avenue.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A satire on American ways of life, written and directed by Downey and misfiring on most cylinders.
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Time Out
If you're in a silly enough mood, you might have a good time.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/5 --
Great drug-fuelled and flawed social commentary.
ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 2/4 --
The humor is occasionally forced, with some cliched comedic devices serving as satire. The commercial parodies, however, are devastatingly funny and right on the money.
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TV Guide
Rating: 8/10 --
The commercials... are absolutely brilliant, and the sheer gonzo tenacity of the whole enterprise makes it all work, even the stuff that doesn't work.
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Movie Metropolis
Product Description:
For years, Putney Swope has been the only black executive at a major Madison Avenue advertising firm, and he's seen it all: the ins and outs of an industry that has unapologetically relegated people of color to the commercial margins. When a twist of fate lands him in the executive's chair, Swope is determined to make some significant changes. He starts by transforming a previously all-white board room into an all-black meeting of dashiki-clad, Afro-sporting "brothers and sisters." But before long, Swope's ideas start to go stale--his plan to shake things up does little more than invert Madison Avenue's hierarchical structure--and all hell breaks loose. PUTNEY SWOPE is a loose, freewheeling satire on '60s corporate America from Robert Downey, Sr., arguably the master of underground film.
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