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Putney Swope posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

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MOVIE1969 1h 24m USA

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Like Putney Swope, this is a wildly irreverent 1960s satire that turns institutions into absurd machinery, using deadpan performances, abrupt tonal shifts, and an increasingly anarchic comic logic.

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Its loose, black-and-white counterculture energy, taboo-poking humor, and playful formal experimentation make it a close companion to Putney Swope’s scrappy, destabilizing satire.

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This apocalyptic absurdist comedy shares Putney Swope’s gleeful contempt for social order, favoring surreal sketches, exaggerated types, and jokes that become stranger rather than tidier.

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Why this pick

Buñuel’s compact, dryly blasphemous satire has the same delight in puncturing authority and decorum, with austere images repeatedly invaded by outrageous comic incongruity.

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Why this pick

A deliberately cheap-looking underground farce, it matches Putney Swope’s handmade freedom, broad caricature, and willingness to push a simple premise into proudly tasteless absurdity.

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01 / THE STORY

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Arnold Johnson

Putney Swope

Stan Gottlieb

Nathan

Antonio Fargas

Antonio Fargas

The Arab

Allan Arbus

Mr. Bad News

Marlene Clark

Allen Garfield

Allen Garfield

Elias, Jr.

Robert Downey Sr.

Robert Downey Sr.

Putney Swope (voice)

Peter Maloney

Putney's Chauffeur