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The Landlord (1970)

Directed by Hal Ashby

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Overview

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.

Length 112 minutes

Actors

Beau Bridges | Lee Grant | Diana Sands | Pearl Bailey | Walter Brooke | Louis Gossett Jr. | Marki Bey | Mel Stewart | Susan Anspach | Robert Klein | Will Mackenzie | Gretchen Walther | Douglas Grant | Stanley Greene | Oliver Clark | Florynce Kennedy | Joe Madden | Grover Dale | Trish Van Devere | Lawrence Cook | Héctor Elizondo | John McCurry | Lionel G. Wilson | Marlene Clark | Gloria Hendry | Willis Pinkett | Hannah Battle | Michael Ferguson | Bobby V. Garvin | Richard Usher | Chelle C. Mordecai | Chris Calloway | Carl Lee | Van Kirksey | Louise Stubbs | Tony Major | Hal Ashby | Joan Marshall | Norman Jewison | Diane Kimbrell | Charlie Murphy