The Landlord
- Released on
Comedy, Drama
•- Runtime
- 112 mins
(43 votes)
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.
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
- 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
- Hector 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
Director
- Hal Ashby
Producers
- Norman Jewison
Screenwriter
- Bill Gunn