Up All Night With Robert Downey, Sr. (Criterion Collection - Eclipse Series 33) (DVD)

Rarely do landmark works of cinema seem so... wrong. Robert Downey Sr. emerged as one of the most irreverent filmmakers of the new American underground of the early sixties, taking no prisoners in his rough-and-tumble treatises on politics, race, and consumer culture. In his most famous, the midnight-movie mainstay PUTNEY SWOPE, an advertising agency is turned on it's head when a militant African American man takes charge. Like Swope, Downey held nothing sacred. This selection of five of his most raucous and outlandish films, dating from 1964 to 1975, offers a unique mix of the hilariously abrasive and the intensely experimental. Includes BABO 73, CHAFED ELBOWS, NO MORE EXCUSES, PUTNEY SWOPE and TWO TONS OF TURQUOISE TO TAOS TONIGHT.

Starring: Robert Downey, Arnold Johnson, George Morgan, Taylor Mead, Alan Abel, Elsie Downey, Lawrence Wolf, Robert (Chinese), Prentice Wilhite, Linda Diesem, Dan List, Ralph Blasi, Amy Eccles, Don Calfa, Ben Bagley, Ronald Nealy, Paula Morris, Lafayette Malatsun, Steve Harris, Jack Harvey, Jack Jobson, Tom O'Horgan, Stan Warnow