At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying...
Run Time
112 min, 110 min (Turner library print)
Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Language
English
Keyword
Tenant, Mulatto, Brooklyn, Love, Satire
Movie Rating
Sound Mix
Mono
Colour
Color
Genre
Romance
Special Genre
Comedy Drama
Film Type
Feature
Film Class
Comedy of Manners, Message Movie
Themes
Class Differences, Opposites Attract, Interracial/Cross-Cultural Romance
Tones
Humorous, Satirical, Wry, Quirky, Literate
Has Detailed Data (New)
1, 2, 3
Wikipedia Text
The Landlord is a 1970 film directed by Hal Ashby, which was based on the novel by Kristin Hunter. The film stars Beau Bridges in the lead role of a well to do white man who becomes landlord of an inner city tenement, unaware that the people he is responsible for are low-income, streetwise residents. Also in the cast are Diana Sands, Lee Grant, Pearl Bailey, and Louis Gossett, Jr.. The film was Ashby's first film as director.
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