BABO 73 (Robert Downey Sr., 1964)
Robert Downey Sr.’s first feature is a rollicking, slapstick, ultra-low-budget 16 mm comedy experiment that introduced a twisted new voice to the New York underground.
CHAFED ELBOWS (Robert Downey Sr., 1966)
This riot of bad taste was a breakthrough for Downey, thanks to rave notices. Visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his “annual November breakdown.”
NO MORE EXCUSES (Robert Downey Sr., 1968)
Downey takes his camera and microphone onto the streets (and into some bedrooms) for a look at Manhattan’s singles scene of the late sixties.
PUTNEY SWOPE (Robert Downey Sr., 1969)
Dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge. Renaming the business "Truth and Soul, Inc.", he replaces the tight regime of monied white ad men with his militant brothers. Soon afterwards, however, the power that comes with its position takes its toll on Putney...
TWO TONS OF TURQUOISE TO TAOS TONIGHT (Robert Downey Sr., 1975)
"Moment To Moment" (also known as "Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight") is an experimental, ludicrous, plotless, absurd, surreal comedy. Impossible to understand, which is seemingly intentional. It leaps from scene to scene, world to world, with reecuring names and actors being the only things that hold it together. Very much like sketch comedy, except without much of a point. The movie literally goes from "Moment To Moment", with no actual narrative in mind rather than to just film a bunch of miscellaneous scenes and ideas and cut them together. Make of it what you will.
Taylor Mead | |
James Greene | |
Jim Antonio | (as James Antonio) |
Tom Gaines | |
Lawrence Wolf | President James A. Garfield |
Richard Roat | |
George Morgan | Walter Dinsmore |
Elsie Downey | All Women's Roles |
Tom O'Horgan | |
Elmer Kline | |
Ben Bagley | |
Ralph Blasi | |
Michael Brown | |
Ronald Nealy | |
Stanley Warnow | |
Lafayette Malatsun | |
Jack Jobson | |
Jack Harvey | |
Dan List | |
Richard Berg | Saxophonist / Walter & His Vaccums |
Glen Berwin | Drummer / Walter & His Vacuums |
Steve Harris | |
Cerves McNeill | Bassist / Walter & His Vacuums |
Robert Downey Sr. | Pvt. Stewart Thompson |
Prentice Wilhite | Charles Guiteau |
Linda Diesem | Mrs. Garfield |
Aimée Eccles | Chinese girl |
Don Calfa | Priest |
Paula Morris | Priest's Woman / Prostitute |
Stan Gottlieb | Nathan (as Stanley Gottlieb) |
Allen Garfield | Elias, Jr. |
Archie Russell | Joker |
Ramon Gordon | Bissinger |
Bert Lawrence | Hawker |
Joe Madden | Mr. Syllables (as Joe Engler) |
Arnold Johnson | Putney |
David Kirk | Elias, Sr. |
Don George | Mr. Cards |
Buddy Butler | Putney's Bodyguard |
Vincent Hamill | Man in White Suit |
Tom Odachi | Wing Soney |
Ching Yeh | Wing Soney, Jr. |
Spunky-Funk Johnson | Mr. Major |
Joe Fields | Pittsburgh Willie |
Norman Schreiber | Messenger |
Robert Staats | Mr. War Toys (as Bob Staats) |
Alan Abel | Mr. Lucky |
Sol Brawerman | Mr. Dinkleberry |
Steven Ben Israel | Mr. Pit Stop (as Ben Israel) |
Mel Brooks | Mr. Forget It |
Luise Heath | Secretary (as Louise Heath) |
Barbara Clarke Chisolm | Secretary (as Barbara Clarke) |
Catherine Lojacono | Lady Beaver |
Johnjohn Robinson | Wayne |
Charles Carlton Buffum | Director (as Charles Buffum) |
Ron Palombo | Assistant Director |
Wendy Apple | Script Girl (as Wendy Appel) |
Antonio Fargas | The Arab |
Geegee Brown | Secretary |
Vance Amaker | Wall Man |
Al Green | Cowboy #1 |
Chuck Ender | Cowboy #2 |
Anthony Chisholm | Cowboy #3 |
Walter Jones | Jim Keranga |
Khaula Bakr | Mrs. Keranga |
Melvia Marshall | Little Keranga (as Melvia) |
Annette Marshall | Little Keranga (as Annette) |
Andrea Marshall | Little Keranga |
Laura Greene | Mrs. Swope |
Ed Gordon | Mr. Victrola Cola |
Eric Krupnik | Mark Focus |
Abdul Hakeim | Bouncer |
Allan Arbus | Mr. Bad News |
Jesse McDonald | Young Militant |
C. Robert Scott | Militant #1 |
Leopoldo Mandeville | Militant #2 |
Vince Morgan Jr. | West Indian |
Al Browne | Moderate |
Marie Claire | Eugenie Ferliger / Nun |
Eileen Peterson | Narrator |
William H. Boesen | Bert / Mr. Lunger |
Carol Farber | Secretary |
Carolyn Cardwell | Borman Six Girl |
Chuck Green | Myron X aka Rufus (as Charles Green) |
Pepi Hermine | President of the United States |
Ruth Hermine | First Lady |
Paul Storob | Secret Service Man |
Jeff Lord | Mr. Bald |
Tom Boya | Mr. O'Dinga |
Major Cole | Idea Man #1 |
David Butts | Idea Man #2 |
Franklin Scott | Idea Man #3 |
Paul Alladice | Idea Man #4 |
Exit | Idea Man #5 |
Ronnie Dyson | Face Off Boy (as Ronald Dyson) |
Shelley Plimpton | Face Off Girl |
Elzbieta Czyzewska | Putney's Maid |
Paulette Marron | Air Conditioner Girl |
Delilah | Stewardess #1 |
Carol Hobbs | Stewardess #2 |