The landlord

Resource Information

The work The landlord represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in The Ferguson Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The landlord

Statement of responsibility

United Artists ; the Mirisch Production Company presents a Norman Jewison-Hal Ashby production ; screenplay by Bill Gunn ; produced by Norman Jewison ; directed by Hal Ashby

Contributor

• Mirisch Production Company
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• United Artists Corporation
• Ashby, Hal
• Bailey, Pearl
• Bridges, Beau
• Brooke, Walter
• Gossett, Louis, Jr., 1936-
• trueGrant, Lee, 1927-
• Gunn, Bill, 1934-1989
• trueJewison, Norman, 1926-
• Kooper, Al
• trueLattany, Kristin Hunter, 1931-2008
• Sands, Diana
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1992- )

Subject

• African Americans
• African Americans -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Drama
• Children of the rich
• Children of the rich -- Drama
• Comedy films
• Comedy films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Interracial dating
• Interracial dating -- Drama
• Landlords
• Landlords -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• New York (State) -- New York
• New York (State) -- New York | Brooklyn
• Tenement houses
• Tenement houses -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama

Genre

• trueDrama
• Feature films
• trueFilm adaptations
• Comedy films

Language

eng

Summary

A social satire about a wealthy young man (Bridges) who leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love in a Brooklyn ghetto

Member of

• Metro Goldwyn Mayer limited edition collection

Cataloging source

VKC

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Gordon Willis ; editors, William A. Sawyer, Edward Warschilka ; music, Al Kooper ; assistant directors, Terence Nelson, Hal DeWindt ; production design, Robert Boyle ; set decorations, John Godfrey ; scenic artists, Gene Powell, William Chiken ; costumes, Domingo Rodriguez

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.L3645 2010

PerformerNote

Beau Bridges (Elgar Enders); Pearl Bailey (Marge); Diana Sands (Fanny); Louis Gossett (Copee); Douglas Grant (Walter Gee); Melvin Stewart (Professor Duboise); Lee Grant (Mrs. Enders); Walter Brooke (Mr. Enders); Susan Anspach (Susan); Robert Klein (Peter); Will MacKenzie (William, Jr.); Gretchen Walther (Doris); Stanley Greene (Heywood); Marki Bey (Lanie); Oliver Clark, Florynce Kennedy, Joe Madden, Grover Dale, Trish Van Devere, Larry Cook, Hector Elizondo, John McCurry, Lionel G. Wilson, Marlene Clark, Gloria Henry, Willis Pinkett, Hannah Battle, Michael Ferguson, Bobby V. Garvin, Richard Usher, Chelle C. Mordecai, Christopher L. Calloway, Carl Lee, Van Kirksey, Louise Stubbs, Tony Major

Runtime

112

Technique

live action