The Landlord

1970

Comedy / Drama / Romance

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 93% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 3502 3.5K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Hal Ashby Photo
Hal Ashby

Top cast

Marki Bey Photo
Marki Bey as Lanie
Oliver Clark Photo
Oliver Clark as Mr. Farcus
Beau Bridges Photo
Beau Bridges as Elgar
Hal Ashby Photo
Hal Ashby as Groom in Opening Shot
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1011.42 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
TV-MA
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 3
1.83 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
TV-MA
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

I don’t suppose you call your kid “Elgar”

I don’t suppose you call your kid “Elgar” and expect him to grow up shining shoes so this one (Beau Bridges) has spent nearly all of his thirty years living with his parents in their New York mansion house. Then one day, on a whim, he buys an old Brooklyn brown-stone that is already occupied by a disparate collection of African Americans who have only a passing interest in paying the tent. Initially, he just wants to gentrify the place but gradually he begins to get used to his eclectic mix of tenants and they to him, and then he begins to befriend “Fanny” (Diana Sands) who is married to the lively activist “Copee” (Louis Gossett Jnr) and “Lanie” (Marki Bey) before he also rather recklessly invites his strongly-willed mother (Lee Grant) round to meet the gang and do some decorating. The scene is now set for chaos to abound tempered with a little free-love and some difficulty with race relations as events take a much more complicated turn that requires “Elgar” to do some growing up, at last. This is probably my favourite film from any of the Bridges clan and Beau really takes to the role. His character’s naïve and gullible nature, coupled with his sense of entitlement evolves into something altogether more likeable and he plays that with an amiable innocence that raises a laugh and an heckle in equal measure. It is sharply written to subtly take a swipe at racial intolerance (going both ways) and both the on-form Clark and Bey contribute strongly to help emphasise the thrust of the plot without shoving it down anyone’s throat. It’s a rapidly-paced comedy about clashes of cultures and attitudes that works really quite well.
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Reviewed by shepardjessica 8 / 10

Beau Bridges Best!

Certainly one of the Top 10 films of 1970, this ingenious comedy directed by Hal Ashby has never gotten the recognition it so deserves. Beau Bridges in this and Gaily, Gaily showed what a wonderful young actor he was, every bit as good as his brother, but never made that Star leap. Lee Grant (one of the best) is coy and cunning and wonderful as Bridges' mother and Diana Sands is heartbreaking, with excellent work from Lou Gossett and Pearl Bailey.

Great music and a topical plot, you can't help but get involved with this rich young man's "plight". One of Ashby's better films. A high 8 out of 10. Best performance = Lee Grant.

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