The Landlord (1970)
Directed by Hal Ashby
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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Ashby’s first film, The Landlord, was released in 1970 and the lead (Beau Bridges) wears an outfit that Licorice viewers will find familiar.
Get Out does not rank with America’s notable race comedies — Brian De Palma’s Hi, Mom!, Ossie Davis’s Gone Are the Days! (Purlie Victorious) , Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope , Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback, Hal Ashby’s The Landlord, Rusty Cundieff’s Fear of a Black Hat, Skin Game or any of the genre spoofs by the Wayans family, particularly the ingenious Little Man, or the recent Eddie Murphy films ( The Klumps, Norbit, Meet Dave, A Thousand Words ) that are so personal and ingenious, they transcend racial categorization.