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.
This conversation between BABO 73 director Robert Downey Sr. and filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson was recorded in 2012.
