Beau Bridges
Elgar Winthrop Julius Enders
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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 ...
- $1.95 million
- Norman Jewison
May 20, 1970 · A young white man buys a building in a black ghetto and faces conflicts with his tenants and his family. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, quotes, soundtracks and more for this Oscar-nominated film.
- (2.9K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Hal Ashby
- 1970-05-20
A white landlord moves into a black ghetto and faces the challenges of race, love and family in this drama-comedy. Roger Ebert praises the film's honest and strong dialog, but criticizes its lack of optimism and resolution.
Summaries. Hal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man Elgar who leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love in a Brooklyn ghetto. At the age of 29, Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges) "runs away" from home.
A comedy-drama film based on a novel by Kristin Hunter, starring Beau Bridges as a rich boy who buys a Brooklyn tenement and clashes with his black tenants. See the cast, crew, photos, videos, awards and more on TCM.
- 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 ...
- (14)
- Comedy, Drama
- PG
Find out who starred in and worked on the 1970 comedy-drama film The Landlord, directed by Hal Ashby and based on a novel by Kristin Hunter. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, and more on IMDb.
