"The Boorman-Six girl has got to have soul!"
Come down to The Backlot Perth on June 23 for an evening of madness and absolute chaos with a screening of Robert Downey Sr's anarchic anti-establishment advertising satire, PUTNEY SWOPE! A watershed film made in 1969, PUTNEY SWOPE's cutthroat satire and countercultural filmic philosophy more than hold up today!
"Putney Swope is the new chairman of this board. And I will defend that mistake with my life."
After the sudden death of the head of a major Madison Avenue advertising company, the chairmen of the board accidentally elect the token diversity hire, a gravelly-voiced man by the name of Putney Swope, as the new head of the company, and what follows is a descent into pure chaos, as Swope fires and hires his employees on seeming whims, replaces all the white employees with his soul brothers, and oversees the evolution of his television advertisements into almost pornographic pieces of surrealism