The Landlord (1970)
The Landlord is a 1970 comedy movie directed by Hal Ashby, with a running time of 1h 52m. It stars Beau Bridges, Lee Grant and Diana Sands.
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.
Cast
- Beau Bridges as Elgar Enders
- Lee Grant as Joyce Enders
- Diana Sands as Francine "Fanny" Johnson
- Pearl Bailey as Marge
- Walter Brooke as William Enders
- Louis Gossett Jr. as Copee Johnson
- Marki Bey as Lanie
- Mel Stewart as Professor Duboise
- Susan Anspach as Susan Enders
- Robert Klein as Peter
- Will Mackenzie as William Jr.
- Gretchen Walther as Doris