DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Putney Swope / produced by Herald Productions, Inc. ; written and directed by Robert Downey.

[Bridgeport, CT] : Vinegar Syndrome, [2019]

©2019

1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Assuming he is incapable of winning, all of the members of a prestigious Madison Avenue advertising firm accidentally vote to appoint the company's only black executive, Putney Swope, as chairman of the board. His unexpected win behind him, Swope changes the company's name to "Truth and Soul, Inc.," fires nearly all of its elderly white employees, and focuses solely on creating subversive, outlandish, and shocking campaigns. As the company is catapulted to new heights of success, Swope finds that he has drawn the ire of the U.S. President, who seeks to declare him an his renegade staff a threat to national security.

Not rated.

Advertising agencies -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

African American businesspeople -- Drama.

Black power -- Drama.

New York (N.Y.) -- Drama.

Comedy films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Downey, Robert, 1936-2021, film director, screenwriter.

Johnson, Arnold, 1921-2000, actor.

Greene, Laura, actor.

Butler, Buddy, actor.

Fargas, Antonio, 1946- actor.

Hamill, Vincent, actor.

Wolfe, Lawrence, 1934- actor.

Cotts, Gerald, director of photography.

Smith, Bud S., editor of moving image work.

Cuva, Charlie. composer (expression)

Weist, Gary, art director.

Herald Productions, production company.

Vinegar Syndrome (Firm), publisher.

Container of (work): Putney Swope (Motion picture)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Special features: Audio commentary with director Robert Downey; audio commentary with film critic and historian Sergio Mims; video interview with Robert Downey (2001); video interview with Robert Downey (2008); Q&A from a screening at the 2005 Philadelphia Film Festival; audio interview with cinematographer Gerald Cotts; archival article & promotional materials gallery; original theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Gerald Cotts ; film editor, Bud Smith ; music, Charley Cuva ; costume design, New Breed Inc. ; art director, Gary Weist.

Arnold Johnson, Laura Greene, Buddy Butler, Anthony Fargas, Vincent Hamill, Lawrence Wolfe.

DVD; Dolby Digital 1.0.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

National Film Registry, 2016.

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