Movie
Mandingo
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1975-06-06
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Genres
- Romance, Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- The De Laurentiis Company
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Ben Masters as Charles Woodford
- Ray Spruell as Wallace
Crew
- Richard Fleischer - Director
- Jack Kirkland - Writer
- Norman Wexler - Screenplay
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