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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 .
Lionheart's hideout, the "Burbage Theatre", was the Putney Hippodrome, which was built in 1906, but had been vacant and dilapidated for more than ten years before it was used in the film. [citation needed] It was demolished in 1975 to make way for housing.
Robert John Downey Sr. (né Elias Jr.; June 24, 1936 – July 7, 2021) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor.He was known for writing and directing the underground film Putney Swope (1969), a satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world.
Cinema Center Films: David Miller (director); Michael Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright: 5 A Walk with Love and Death: 20th Century Fox: John Huston (director); Anjelica Huston, Assi Dayan, Anthony Higgins: 6 The Royal Hunt of the Sun: Paramount Pictures: Irving Lerner (director); Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport: 8
Carol Reed was born in Putney, southwest London. [2] He was the son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, Beatrice May Pinney, who later adopted the surname of Reed. [3] [4] He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury. He embarked on an acting career while still in his late teens.
Jonathan Rosenbaum (born February 27, 1943) is an American film critic and author. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for The Chicago Reader from 1987 to 2008. [1] He has published and edited numerous books about cinema [2] and has contributed to such notable film publications as Cahiers du cinéma and Film Comment.
The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema [6]), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.
Jason Iain Flemyng [1] (born 25 September 1966) is an English actor. He is known for his work with British filmmakers Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughn appearing in the Ritchie films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), (both films were also produced by Vaughn) and appearing in Vaughn's films Layer Cake (2004), Kick-Ass (2010), and X-Men: First Class (2011).