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The Landlord

1970 · 1h 52m · Comedy, Drama · United States of America

Watch the landlord get his.

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.

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Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey

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