The Landlord (1970)
Note: this print runs 99 minutes against a recorded 110 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett Jr., Mel Stewart, Susan Anspach, Héctor Elizondo
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 privileged and ignorant white man Elgar Enders who 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, Louis Gossett Jr., and Walter Brooke. The film was Ashby's directorial debut.
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