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 · 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.
- (2.9K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Hal Ashby
- 1970-05-20
A white society kid buys a tenement in a black ghetto and faces the awkwardness and hypocrisy of race relations. The film explores his involvement with the tenants, his family, and his own identity in a realistic and honest way.
Synopsis. 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. Elgar's ideas are changed, however, when he becomes acquainted with the tenants, who include Marge, a fortune-teller; Professor Duboise, a black ...
- Hal Ashby, Hal Dewindt, Terence Nelson
- Beau Bridges
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.
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