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The Landlord is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, adapted by Bill Gunn from the 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter. The film stars Beau Bridges in the lead role of a privileged and ignorant white man who selfishly becomes landlord of an inner-city tenement, unaware that the people he is responsible for are low-income ...
May 20, 1970 · With Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey. At the age of 29, Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges) "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it into a posh flat.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Hal Ashby
- 1970-05-20
Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Hal Ashby's "The Landlord," as you've probably already heard, is about a rich white society kid who lolls around the old plantation until he's 29, then ups and buys himself a tenement in a black ghetto one day.
A fascinating mix of social satire, urban drama, and high comedy, The Landlord tells the story of an affluent young man, Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges), who purchases a tenement brownstone in Brooklyn with the intention of converting it into a swinging bachelor pad with all the necessary psychedelic trappings. What he doesn't anticipate is the ...
- Hal Ashby, Hal Dewindt, Terence Nelson
- Beau Bridges
As his 30th birthday nears, the aristocratic Elger Winthrop Enders (Beau Bridges) finally decides to leave his parents' home, and he purchases an apartment complex in the slums of New York. The ...
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- Hal Ashby
- PG
- Beau Bridges
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The Landlord. Summaries. At the age of 29, Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges) "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it into a posh flat.
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