Mandingo

Mandingo

127 mins | Drama, Romance | June 6, 1975

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. Meanwhile, Warren buys a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and to earn money as a prize-fighter.

Mandingo

127 mins | Drama, Romance | June 6, 1975

Mandingo
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. Meanwhile, Warren buys a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and to earn money as a prize-fighter.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Paramount, Dino De Laurentiis Company
Original title Mandingo
Directors Albert Shepard, Alvin Greenman, Frederic W. Brost, Gary Daigler, Richard Fleischer
Writers Kyle Onstott, Jack Kirkland, Norman Wexler

Cast

Perry King

as Hammond Maxwell

James Mason

as Warren Maxwell

Susan George

as Blanche Woodford Maxwell

Ken Norton

as Mede (Galamede)

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

Louis Turenne

as De Veve

Duane Allen

as Topaz

Earl Maynard

as Babouin

Beatrice Winde

as Lucy

Debbi Morgan

as Dite

Irene Tedrow

as Mrs. Redfield

Reda Wyatt

as Big Pearl

Simone McQueen

as Madam Caroline

Evelyn Hendrickson

as Beatrix

Stanley J. Reyes

as Major Woodford

John Barber

as Le Toscan

Kerwin Robinson

as Alph

Debra Blackwell

as Blonde Girl

Sylvia Kuumba Williams

as Black Mother

Stocker Fontelieu

as Wilson

Edwin Edwards

as Gambler

Laura Misch Owens

as Prostitute

Sylvester Stallone

as Villager (uncredited)

Rosemary Tichenor

as Slave-Buying Woman