35mm

The Landlord

Hal Ashby

Q&A with Lee Grant and casting director Lynn Stalmaster!

This superb Park Slope story of race relations and real estate by the New Hollywood director was originally a Jewison project. With Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Pearl Bailey.

DIRECTOR
Hal Ashby
YEAR
1970
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
112 minutes
FORMAT
35mm

Q&A with Lee Grant and casting director Lynn Stalmaster!

When his commitments to Fiddler on the Roof interfered, Jewison stepped aside from a smaller stateside project, handing over the reins to his editor, the future New Hollywood firebrand Hal Ashby. His directorial debut is a daring, prescient send-up of real estate and race relations, starring a baby-faced Beau Bridges as a callow, pampered layabout who gets more than he bargained for when he buys a brownstone in pre-gentrification Park Slope. Featuring Lee Grant in an Oscar-nominated performance as Bridges’s genteel, racist mother. With Pearl Bailey.

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