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    Mandingo (1975)

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    Set on a slave plantation in the Deep South, Mandingo is a sordid wallow in depravity.

    Warren Maxwell (James Mason), the ageing owner of the 19th-century plantation, ‘Falconhurst’, puts on the airs of a courtly gentleman but is in fact a brutal, superstitious creature at heart.

    Early on, he’s convinced that the best cure for his persistent “rheumatis” is to sleep with his feet pressed against a naked slave child, allowing the foul humours to drain into the boy’s stomach.

    Intent on securing the future of his name, Maxwell is eager to marry off his son, Hammond (Perry King), who shows more interest in deflowering female slaves than wooing white women.

    Hammond agrees to wed wealthy cousin Blanche (Susan George), reviving the family’s fortunes and its hopes for an heir. But when he discovers on their wedding night that Blanche isn’t a virgin, he vows never to sleep with her again. It doesn’t help when he learns that the culprit is her own brother.

    mandingo5Hammond finds solace in the arms of prize slave and “bed wench” Ellen (Brenda Sykes) while his wife turns to Mede (Ken Norton) – a newly acquired slave prized for his fighting ability and robust physique – after her increasingly desperate entreaties meet only silence

    Norton, a former prizefighter, dwarfs George’s tiny frame, but her wild eyes and gnashing teeth more than make up the difference.

    Contemporary critics damned Mandingo as high-toned trash, a ruthless exploitation of racial stereotypes memorably parodied in a Saturday Night Live skit with O.J. Simpson filling Norton’s role.

    But the movie’s offences are hardly unintentional. Seen as a camp classic, Mandingo‘s excesses seem risible. But viewed with fresh eyes, it can credibly be seen as a revisionist history of a particularly savage kind.

    Warren Maxwell
    James Mason
    Blanche
    Susan George
    Hammond Maxwell
    Perry King
    Agamemnon
    Richard Ward
    Ellen
    Brenda Sykes
    Mede
    Ken Norton
    Lucrezia Borgia
    Lillian Hayman
    Doc Redfield
    Roy Poole
    Cicero
    Ji-Tu Cumbuka
    Brownlee
    Paul Benedict
    Charles
    Ben Masters
    Wallace
    Ray Spruell
    De Veve
    Louis Turenne
    Topaz
    Duane Allen
    Babouin
    Earl Maynard
    Lucy
    Beatrice Winde
    Dite
    Debbie Morgan
    Mrs. Redfield
    Irene Tedrow
    Big Pearl
    Reda Wyatt
    Madame Caroline
    Simon Mcqueen
    Beatrix
    Evelyn Hendrickson
    Major Woodford
    Stanley J. Reyes
    Le Toscan
    John Barber
    Meg
    Durwyn Robinson
    Alph
    Kerwin Robinson
    Wilson
    Stocker Fontelieu

    Director
    Richard Fleischer

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