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National Film Preservation Board | 2016
Robert Downey Sr. redubbed all of Arnold Johnson's lines. According to Downey, he did this because Johnson had trouble remembering his lines and often flubbed them during filming.
In a 2000 interview, Marlene Clark, who plays a topless stewardess in the film's Lucky Airlines commercial spoof, said this was her first experience with onscreen nudity. She said director Robert Downey Sr. lied to her and other topless actresses in the scene. "He said, 'Take off your tops. You're out of focus. Nobody will see anything,' and we were so stupid, we believed him. Of course, when I saw the movie, I was speechless. I couldn't have been more in focus!"
This film cost $250,000, all labor non-union.
Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.
According to a contemporary article in the New York Times, director Robert Downey Sr. hired a real homeless man for $10 and four bottles of wine to add "authenticity" to a scene shot in a garbage-strewn alley in the Bowery section of Manhattan. The man performed perfectly by drinking the wine and passing out on a pile of trash.
"Idea Man: Putney! I've been supervising the war toy account for 12 years. And let me tell you something: deny a young boy the right to have a toy gun, and you'll suppress his destructive urges. And he'll turn out to be a homosexual. Or worse."
"Reporter: Mr. Swope, did you sleep with your wife before you were married? Putney Swope: Not a wink."
