Putney Swope (1969)

Directed by

Robert Downey Sr.

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 82 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Black advertising executive is accidentally elected chairman of a Madison Avenue agency. He turns the firm upside down with radical new policies that parody corporate culture, race relations, and consumerism.

satiricalchaoticabsurdistfast-pacedirreverentprovocativedarkly comicedgy

What happens

Putney Swope is a 1969 American satirical comedy film written and directed by Robert Downey Sr., and starring Arnold Johnson as the title character, a black advertising executive. The film satirizes the advertising world, the portrayal of race in Hollywood films and the nature of corporate corruption. In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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