The Landlord(Movie, 1970)

Name: The Landlord
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1970
Duration: T01:52:00
Rating: 2.8

1h 52min | Genres: Comedy, Drama

Rating: 2.8/5 (with 19 votes)

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. 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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Awards & Nominations for The Landlord

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

About The Landlord

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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The Landlord (1970) ORIGINAL Trailer [HD 1080p](Trailer, 2:34)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: New York City (NYC), Brooklyn

Made by: The Mirisch Corporation, Cartier Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 7 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/20/1970

Cast: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett Jr., Mel Stewart, Susan Anspach, Héctor Elizondo, Robert Klein, Trish Van Devere, Walter Brooke, Marki Bey, Will Mackenzie, Lawrence Cook

Director: Hal Ashby

Producer: Norman Jewison

Screenwriter: Bill Gunn

Director of Photography: Gordon Willis

Composer: Al Kooper

Keywords: landlord, tenant

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The Landlord(Movie, 1970)

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