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Episode 2: Putney Swope & Uptight
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Hosts Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn discuss 2 classics.
Putney Swope (1969) written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. starring Arnold Johnson featuring Antonio Fargas. Putney Swope elected advertising executive of a marketing firm who turns the coat on the company. The film satirizes the advertising world, the portrayal of race in Hollywood films, the white power structure, and the nature of corporate corruption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgId...
Uptight (1968) drama directed by Jules Dassin, on the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Starring a great cast. Julian Mayfield, Ruby Dee, Raymond St. Jacques, Roscoe D. Brown and Max Julien. This is supposed the be an updated version of John Ford's 1935 film The Informer, based on the book of the same name by Liam O'Flaherty. Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gam5Q...
Hosts Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn
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