PUTNEY SWOPE TRAILER
February 1, 2012 
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Truly one of the great subversive films of the 70s, the trailer for Robert Downey’s 1969 Putney Swope remains one of my all-time faves. A scathing satire on the advertising business, Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) is the only black man on the board of an advertising firm, who inadvertently gets voted in as chair when all the other board members – unable to vote for themselves – all vote for the person they think is least likely to get votes. Thus Putney Swope is unanimously sworn in as the new chair, renaming the company Truth and Soul, Inc and setting in place policies to refuse business from any company that sells tobacco, booze or arms, which completely upsets the system. The film was a sensation at the time and its influence can still be felt in irreverent comedy today (its premise would also be neutered in Tony Bill’s 1990 film Crazy People).
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, price of propecia from canada publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books generic levitra online overnight delivery including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
