Putney Swope

Showings

Sag Harbor Cinema Theater 2 Fri, Jul 30, 2021 6:30 PM
Sag Harbor Cinema Theater 2 Sat, Jul 31, 2021 3:30 PM
Sag Harbor Cinema Theater 2 Sun, Aug 1, 2021 6:30 PM
Intro by Wendy Keys, SHC Board V.P., former Executive Producer at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Sag Harbor Cinema Theater 2 Mon, Aug 2, 2021 3:30 PM
Sag Harbor Cinema Theater 2 Tue, Aug 3, 2021 6:30 PM
Intro by Wendy Keys, SHC Board V.P., former Executive Producer at Film Society of Lincoln Center
Sag Harbor Cinema Theater 2 Wed, Aug 4, 2021 3:30 PM
Film Info
Release Year:1969
Rating:R
Production Country:USA
Original Langauge:English
Format:DCP
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Robert Downey Sr.

Description

The most popular film by Robert Downey Sr. is this offbeat classic about the antics that ensue after Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson, his voice dubbed by a gravelly Downey), the token Black man on the board of a Madison Avenue advertising agency, is inadvertently elected chairman. Putney summarily fires the whiteys, replaces them with Black Power apostles, renames the company Truth and Soul, Inc., and proceeds to wreak politically incorrect havoc. (via The Criterion Collection) Putney Swope was restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Putney Swope is an American Genre Film Archive release.