Directed by Robert Downey Sr. • 1964 • United States
Taylor Mead plays the president of the United Status, who, when he isn't at the White House, a dilapidated Victorian, conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach. 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.
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives, with funding provided by The Film Foundation.
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Chafed Elbows
Directed by Robert Downey Sr. • 1966 • United States
This riot of bad taste was a breakthrough for Robert Downey Sr., thanks to rave notices. Visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his “annual November breakdown” as he wanders from on...
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No More Excuses
Directed by Robert Downey Sr. and Robert Soukis • 1968 • United States
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. Of course, that’s not all: NO MORE EXCUSES cuts between this footage and the frag...
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Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
Directed by Robert Downey Sr. • 1975 • United States
"A film without a beginning or an end," in Downey's words, this Dadaist thingamajig, a never-before-seen, newly reedited version of the director's 1975 release Moment to Moment (also known as Jive), is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and...
