Mandingo

Jun 6, 1975

2h 7m

★ 6.6

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

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.

Genres

Romance

Drama

History

Production Companies

The De Laurentiis Company

Mandingo Trailers

Cast

Hammond Maxwell

Perry King

Warren Maxwell

James Mason

Blanche Woodford Maxwell

Susan George

Mede (Ganymede)

Ken Norton

Agamemnon

Richard Ward

Ellen

Brenda Sykes

Lucrezia Borgia

Lillian Hayman

Doc Redfield

Roy Poole

Cicero

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Brownlee

Paul Benedict

Charles Woodford

Ben Masters

Wallace

Ray Spruell

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