The Landlord (1970)
1h 52m
Running Time
May 20, 1970Release Date
Plot.
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "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 the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
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Cast & Crew.
Beau Bridges
Elgar Enders
Lee Grant
Joyce Enders
Diana Sands
Francine 'Fanny' Johnson
Pearl Bailey
Marge
Walter Brooke
William Enders
Louis Gossett Jr.
Copee Johnson
Marki Bey
Lanie
Mel Stewart
Professor Duboise
Susan Anspach
Susan Enders
Robert Klein
Peter
Will Mackenzie
William Jr.
Gretchen Walther
Doris
Douglas Grant
Walter Gee
Stanley Greene
Heywood
Oliver Clark
Mr. Farcus
Florynce Kennedy
Enid
Joe Madden
Grandfather
Grover Dale
Oscar
Trish Van Devere
Sally
Lawrence Cook
Larry
Hector Elizondo
Hector
John McCurry
Big John
Lionel G. Wilson
Number One
Marlene Clark
Marlene
Gloria Hendry
Gloria
Willis Pinkett
Maitre d'
Hannah Battle
Laura Ann
Michael Ferguson
Gene
Bobby V. Garvin
Ernest
Richard Usher
Alvin Joe
Chelle C. Mordecai
Louise
Chris Calloway
Chris
Carl Lee
Carl
Van Kirksey
Van
Louise Stubbs
Louise
Tony Major
Tony
Hal Ashby
Groom in Opening Shot (uncredited) / Director
Joan Marshall
Bride in Opening Shot (uncredited)
Norman Jewison
Wedding Guest in Opening Shot (uncredited) / Producer
Diane Kimbrell
Bonnie Parker (uncredited)
Charlie Murphy
Hubcap Thief (uncredited)
Kristin Hunter
Novel
Drake Walker
Other
Kurt Baker
Second Assistant Director
Bill Tuck
Sound
James Richard
Sound Editor
Vincent Callaghan
Makeup Artist
Marvin I. Kosberg
Sound Editor
Harold Melvin
Hairstylist
Terence Nelson
First Assistant Director
Chris Newman
Sound
Richard Portman
Sound Recordist
Norman I. Cohen
Second Assistant Director
Al Kooper
Music
Lynn Stalmaster
Casting
Gordon Willis
Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
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Wiki.
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 the landlord of an inner-city tenement, unaware that the people he is responsible for are low-income, streetwise residents. Also in the cast are Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, and Louis Gossett Jr. The film was Ashby's directorial debut.
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