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Based on the novel by. Kristin Hunter. 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. "Everyone," he reflects while sunning himself beside the family pool, "wants a home of his own ...
The Young Landlords: Directed by George Bowers. With Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Hal Williams, Marla Gibbs, Jim Greenleaf. Four teen-age New York residents need to raise cash to improve a dilapidated building they bought for a dollar.
The Young Landlords. Walter Dean Myers. Penguin, Oct 1, 1989 - Juvenile Fiction - 208 pages. If you were looking for a real ghetto dump, you couldn’t beat The Stratford Arms. There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, Petey Darden making booze downstairs, and Mrs. Brown grieving for Jack Johnson, who’d died for the third ...
Film Movie Reviews The Young Landlords — 1983. The Young Landlords. 1983. 1h 56m. Comedy/Musical. Cast. Kevin Rodney Sullivan (Paul) Hal Williams (Mr. Williams) Marla Gibbs (Tina Robinson) Jim ...
The Landlord. 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 ...
Still, when Paul Williams and the Action Group got the Arms for one dollar, they thought they had it made. But when their friend Chris was arrested for stealing stereos and Dean’s dog started biting fire hydrants and Gloria started kissing, being a landlord turned out to be a lot more work than being a kid. Product Details.
There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, Petey Darden making booze downstairs, and Mrs. Brown grieving for Jack Johnson, who’d died for the third time in a month—and not a rent payer in the bunch. Still, when Paul Williams and the Action Group got the Arms for one dollar, they thought they had it made.
