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Movie
Mandingo
Synopsis
Richard Fleischer directed this lurid historical drama based on the novel by Kyle Onstott. The story begins on a run-down plantation lorded over by Warren Maxwell (James Mason) and his son Hammond (Perry King). Hammond travels to New Orleans where he buys a top-of-the-line slave, Mede (Ken Norton), at an auction. Hammond is proud of his purchase, hoping to bring in money by training Mede to fight his other slaves. Hammond returns with Mede to the plantation, where he has to contend with his sex-crazed wife Blanche (Susan George). Hammond looks upon Blanche as damaged goods since he discovered her to not be a virgin on their wedding night. Instead, Hammond prefers erotic pursuits with his slave Ellen (Brenda Sykes). Blanche licks her lips at the sight of Mede, and seduces him to get revenge on her husband. Blanche soon becomes pregnant and gives birth to a half-black baby. Enraged, Hammond comes after Blanche, poisons her, and then the child bleed to death before going after Mede.
Cast
- James Mason
- Susan George
- Perry King
- Ken Norton
- Richard Ward
- Brenda Sykes
- Lillian Hayman
- Roy Poole
- Ji-Tu Cumbuka
- Ben Masters
- Paul Benedict
- Ray Spruell
- Louis Turenne
- John A. Barber
- Duane Allen
- Earl Maynard
- Beatrice Winde
- Debbie Morgan
- Irene Tedrow
- Reda Wyatt
- Simon McQueen
- Evelyn Hendrickson
- Stanley Reyes
- John Barber
- Durwyn Robinson
- Kerwin Robinson
- Deborah Ann Young
- Debra Blackwell
- Kuumba
- Stocker Fontelieu
- Ann Roth
- William Randall
- Ralph Serpe
- Richard H. Kline
- Frank Bracht
- Norman Wexler
- Boris Leven