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.