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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 · The Landlord: Directed by Hal Ashby. With Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey. Naïve 29-year-old Elgar Enders buys a building in a black Brooklyn ghetto to evict the tenants and upgrade it.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Hal Ashby
- 1970-05-20
Jun 6, 2021 · 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 building's black tenants and convert it into a ...
- 110 min
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- Junk Drawer Theater
Elgar Enders, the son of a wealthy industrialist, buys a tenement in Brooklyn which he plans to convert into a psychedelic home for himself after evicting the present Negro tenants.
- Hal Ashby, Hal Dewindt, Terence Nelson
- Beau Bridges
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.
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.
The Landlord | Rotten Tomatoes. PG Released May 20, 1970 1h 53m Comedy Drama. List. As his 30th birthday nears, the aristocratic Elger Winthrop Enders (Beau Bridges) finally decides to leave...
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- Comedy, Drama
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