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Mandingo is a 1975 American historical melodrama film that focuses on the Atlantic slave trade in the Antebellum South. The film's title refers to the Mandinka people, who are referred to as "Mandingos", and described as being good slaves for fighting matches.
Jul 25, 1975 · Mandingo: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward. An 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Richard Fleischer
- 1975-07-25
Roger Ebert July 25, 1975. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. There's a scene at the end of "Mandingo" in which the young plantation master goes out to the slave quarters after his slave Mede. The master's wife has just given birth to a black baby, undoubtedly Mede's, and after poisoning his wife, the master intends to boil Mede alive.
A Louisiana plantation owner's (James Mason) son (Perry King) has an affair with a slave, and he's not the only one.
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- Richard Fleischer
- R
- James Mason
Mandingo has been both reviled and celebrated for its portrait of the horrors of American slavery and its salacious mix of sex and violence since its release in 1975. The story of a brutal, virulently racist Southern slave-owning father and his lame son, who has a more romantic view of the relationship between white slavers and the enslaved ...
- Richard O. Fleischer
- Beatrice Winde
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Home. Store. Mandingo. A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter, unaware that his wife is demanding from his champion services of a different kind. 1,698IMDb 6.42 h 6 min1975. X-RayR. Adventure · Drama ·Biting·Harrowing. Free trial of Brown Sugar, rent, or buy.
Summaries. An 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter. It's the mid-nineteenth century Louisiana. Falconhurst, a run down plantation, is owned by Warren Maxwell, and largely run by his son, Hammond Maxwell, who walks with a limp due to a childhood accident.
