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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.
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.
Based on the hugely successful novel by Kyle Onstott, Mandingo takes the audience beyond the sentimentalized South of other films with uncompromising honesty and realism to show the true ...
Jun 26, 2018 · A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
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.
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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Oct 30, 2021 · Theatrical trailer of "Mandingo" by Richard Fleischer. Starring James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward, Brenda Sykes, Ken Norton, Lilian Hayman,...
