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Mandingo

Name: Mandingo
Director: Richard Fleischer
Genre: Romance, Drama, History
Released: 1975
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Perry King, James Mason, Susan George, Ken Norton, Richard Ward

Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.

1975 · Directed by Richard Fleischer · 127 min · Romance · Drama · History · 10 frames

Tagline

Expect The Savage. The Sensual. The Shocking. The Sad. The Powerful. The Shameful. Expect The Truth.

Crew

Screenplay: Norman Wexler
Written by: Jack Kirkland
Cinematography: Richard H. Kline
Edited by: Frank Bracht
Music: Maurice Jarre
Production design: Boris Leven
Produced by: Dino De Laurentiis

Cast

Perry King as Hammond Maxwell
James Mason as Warren Maxwell
Susan George as Blanche Woodford Maxwell
Ken Norton as Mede (Ganymede)
Richard Ward as Agamemnon
Brenda Sykes as Ellen
Lillian Hayman as Lucrezia Borgia
Roy Poole as Doc Redfield
Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Cicero
Paul Benedict as Brownlee

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: The De Laurentiis Company
Themes: bare knuckle boxing, slavery, interracial relationship, slave owner

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More by Richard Fleischer

Soylent Green — 1973
Doctor Dolittle — 1967
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — 1954
Fantastic Voyage — 1966
Barabbas — 1961
Mr. Majestyk — 1974
10 Rillington Place — 1971
The Boston Strangler — 1968
The Narrow Margin — 1952
Compulsion — 1959
See No Evil — 1971
The Vikings — 1958
Conan the Destroyer — 1984
Red Sonja — 1985

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