The Landlord

The Landlord (1970)

Watch the landlord get his.

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.

Date of release
1970-05-20
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (53)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Hal Ashby

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $2M
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

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., Walter Brooke and Gloria Hendry. The film was Ashby's directorial debut.

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