TV Guide: Putney Swope

Video: Putney Swope -- (Movie Clip) Open, Dr. Weasley

TCM — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A chopper flying a jolly-roger and a Confederate flag carries a Mensa-member Hell's Angel advertising guru into a Manhattan high-rise, in the opening of Robert Downey's Putney Swope, 1969.

Video: Putney Swope -- (Movie Clip) Wing Soney

TCM — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

With clients bailing out, Nathan (Stan Gottlieb) tells the new boss at the ad agency (and title character, Arnold Johnson) that an Asian industrialist (Tom Odachi) has a new mousetrap, in Robert Downey's Putney Swope, 1969.

Video: Putney Swope -- (Movie Clip) New Chairman, Credits

TCM — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

With the newly-deceased boss on the table in the board-room, executives (Stan Gottlieb, Ramon Gordon, Allen Garfield) elect the token black guy and title character (Arnold Johnson) in Robert Downey's Putney Swope, 1969.

Video: Putney Swope -- (Movie Clip) Brothers in the Black Room

TCM — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

The title character and advertising potentate (Arnold Johnson) has a brief encounter with Allan Arbus (director's pal) then meets with fellow African-Americans, in Robert Downey's Putney Swope, 1969.

Video: Putney Swope -- (Movie Clip) Mixed Media

TCM — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Antonio Fargas (as "The Arab," best-known as Huggy from "Starsky and Hutch") performing a Muslim prayer and diatribe, in writer-director Robert Downey's advertising send-up Putney Swope, 1969.

Video: Putney Swope

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

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. Swope swoops into action, firing them all and replacing them with armed radicals, soul brothers, and sexy red-hot mamas. Re-naming the agency "Truth and Soul," Putney sets about revolutionizing the corporate world of advertising, banning the marketing of products such as cigarettes, alcohol and violent toys. The agency produces raucous, kooky TV spots - offensive, humorous, and, at first, wildly successful. But can "Truth and Soul" last, not only in advertising but within Putney himself?

Video: Putney Swope

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500