Mandingo

  • Mandingo
Genre : Historical
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1975
Format : Feature
Running time : 128 (in minutes)

Slave owner Warren Maxwell insists that his son, Hammond, who is busy bedding the slaves he buys, marry a white woman and father him a son. While in New Orleans, he picks up a wife, Blanche, a "bed wench," Ellen, and a Mandingo slave, Mede, whom he trains to be a bare-knuckle fighting champion. Angered that Hammond is spending too much time with his slaves, Blanche beds down Mede

The big-budget screen adaptation of Kyle Onstott's 1957 novel about life on the Southern plantation of Falconhurst.

Drected by Richard Fleischer,

Produced by Dino DeLaurentiis

starring James Mason, Perry King, Susan George, Ken Norton and Brenda Sykes.



The film version was a substantial box-office success despite being torn to shreds by critics.

A second Onstott adaptation - "Drum" followed in 1976.

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