The Landlord (1970)

Directed by

Hal Ashby

Genre

drama film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy white man buys a rundown apartment building in a black neighborhood and moves in. He expects to be a benevolent landlord but clashes with the poor residents who are not impressed by his naivete.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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