The Landlord (1970)

The Landlord is a 1970 film directed by Hal Ashby, 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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