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| The Landlord | |
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| Directed by | Hal Ashby |
| Screenplay by | Bill Gunn |
| Based on | The Landlord 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter |
| Produced by | Norman Jewison |
| Starring | Beau Bridges Lee Grant Diana Sands Pearl Bailey |
| Cinematography | Gordon Willis |
| Edited by | William A. Sawyer Edward Warschilka |
| Music by | Al Kooper |
Production companies | Mirisch Company Cartier Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.95 million[1] |
The Landlord is a 1970 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby, adapted by Bill Gunn from the 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter. The film stars Beau Bridges in the lead role of a privileged and ignorant white man who selfishly becomes the landlord of an inner-city tenement, unaware that the people he is responsible for are low-income, streetwise residents. Also in the cast are Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, and Louis Gossett Jr. The film was Ashby's directorial debut.
- ^ "The Films of Hal Ashby". Beach, Christopher (2009). Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, p. 175, ISBN 978-0-8143-3415-7.