Beau Bridges & Diana Sands "The Landlord" (1970) Pearl Bailey Hal Ashby
clip from the 1970 Hal Ashby film "The Landlord." Wealthy, insensitive young Beau Bridges buys an inner-city tenement, planning to evict the present occupants and construct a luxury home for himself. But once he ventures into the tenement, he grows quite fond of the low-income ethnic types who dwell within. He even kicks over the traces of his WASP upbringing by romancing black tenants Diana Sands and Marki Bey. Though essentially a comedy, The Landlord offers several painful truths about ...