Putney Swope

by Robert Downey, Joe Madden Arnold Johnson, Mel Brooks

$475 · Offered by Royal Books

Los Angeles: Herald Productions, 1969. Collection of 20 vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film. Director Robert Downey Sr., one of the most irreverent and anarchic underground filmmakers of the 1960s, simultaneously satirizes race, politics, and consumerism at the end of a decade of rapidly evolving American culture. The film follows Putney Swope, the only African American man on the executive board of an advertising firm who is accidentally

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