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"The Landlord" is easily one of the most known and most entertaining funnyordie-shorts. While they can be occasionally quite off the mark (there's so many and not everyone can be a winner), the dialogs and delivery thereof really turn this one into something special.
Nobody can deny that Hal Ashby was a great director, here in his debut movie he proves that came to stay, produced by his eternal friend Norman Jewison on an unusual offering about racial prejudice, Beau Bridges on probably at his best movie play a well-born Elgar Enders that bought a urban tenement at Brooklyn who willing remove all dwellers to restore the building to live there, however he meets all kind of poor people, mostly black ones, knowing all them he changes your mind, they are a decent people to live with, but when Elgar exposes it to your racist family all things coming down, his mother (Lee Grant in great shape) decides will there to see by yourself and ends up drinking too much with the charismatic odd lady Marge, Elgar starts a romance with young half breed Lanie, nevertheless has a sexual interest for a married black woman Fanny (Diana Sands), that's a real deadly matter, Fanny got pregnancy and tells to his ruthless husband, oh my God the man became really mad, his faithful wife had an affair while he was in jail with a WHITE MAN, this movie has a strong social commentary about racism, crossbreading on American ground, touching in a forbidden subject, with a black humor oriented!!!
Some hollywood royalty in this one from 1970! a very YOUNG Beau Bridges.
Our hero here is Elgar Winthrop Julius Enders (Beau Bridges), age 29, a White, rich, and very naïve man who, much to the disgust of his hateful bourgeoisie family, cheerily buys a rundown urban tenement building, filled with Black, poor, and very sophisticated adults and street-wise kids. Elgar thus sets himself up to be caught in the middle of an inevitable culture clash.
Alyssa Haroldson has recently moved to Los Angeles, and she instantly has an opportunity to move into a beautiful apartment and given an enormous break on rent. For Alyssa, it is all "too good to be true.
You sound to me like a bigot. You have eyes that are funny.
I'm not sure this satirical comedy about race relations in 1970's America would be made today, times being what they are. Let's just say that if it were made today it would almost certainly be directed by an African-American director and the satire would be even more pointed.
Quite a well made Lifetime thriller. This poor stand up comedienne has not one but 2 stalkers.
Hal Ashby released a string of excellent films in the 1970s ("Harold and Maude", "The Last Detail", "Bound for Glory", "Coming Home", "Being There", "Shampoo"). His directorial debut, "The Landlord", was equally self-assured.
