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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, streetwise residents.
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.
The Landlord. 2024 · 1 hr 40 min. TV-PG. Thriller. A struggling writer who thinks she’s stumbled upon the perfect home learns her new landlord's friendly demeanor is masking an unnerving obsession. Subtitles: English. Starring: Ayla Thompson Don Snipes Bianca Samone Williams Tee Bynum Celestine Sears. Directed by: Tonja Ayers Rockey Black.
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 ...
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. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has ...
Seen today, The Landlord is remarkable for its outstanding ensemble cast which includes the late Diana Sands as Fanny, who has an ill-fated affair with Elgar, Louis Gossett, Jr. as Copee, Fanny's enraged husband, Marki Bey as Lanie, a mulatto artist and dancer who becomes Elgar's girlfriend, and Pearl Bailey as Marge, the resident fortune teller who introduces Elgar to soul food. The real surprise is Lee Grant who practically steals the film as Elgar's racist, high society mother.
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