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Mandingo full movie is released on Jul 25, 1975. Watch Mandingo online - the English Drama movie from United States. Mandingo is directed by Richard Fleischer and created by Kyle Onstott with James Mason and Susan George. Mandingo is available online on Kanopy and Amazon Video.

It's the mid-nineteenth century Louisiana. Falconhurst, a run down plantation, is owned by Warren Maxwell, and largely run by his son, Hammond Maxwell, who walks with a limp due to a childhood accident. Hammond is under pressure to get married and produce a male heir to continue the Maxwell legacy before Warren dies. With no experience courting a potential bride - his sexual experiences confined to slaves and whores - Hammond ultimately chooses his cousin Blanche for his wife in what would not be considered a courtship in its true sense. In turn, Blanche agrees to the marriage largely to escape the realm of her sadistic brother, Charles. As his father tells him is custom, Hammond, while on his and Blanche's honeymoon in New Orleans, also obtains a slave as a go to sexual partner, he buying Ellen, who he met when she was given to him in hospitality when visiting who was then her master. Concurrently, Hammond also purchases Mede, a Mandingo, as a slave, something Warren had always wanted because of their physical strength. The plan with Mede is to breed him with their female slaves to produce further Mandingos who they can sell for a higher price than other black slaves. However, Hammond, out of circumstance, uses Mede in the potentially lucrative sport of no holds barred slave fighting, often to the death. Hammond and Blanche end up having an unsatisfying marriage largely due to something Hammond discovers on their wedding night, he turning to Ellen instead as the preferred woman in his life. Blanche, in return, takes her anger out on Hammond in the only way she knows how. In the process, it is their slaves who pay the price for their problems.

As know as:

Mandingo - O Fruto da Vingança, マンディンゴ, Mandingo, Мандинго, Zincirli Köle

Release Date (Streaming):

Apr 05, 2011

Countries:

United States

Language:

English, French

Production Companies:

Dino De Laurentiis Company, Paramount Pictures

Taglines:

Expect The savage. The sensual. The shocking. The sad. The powerful. The shameful., Expect all that the motion picture screen has never dared to show before. Expect the truth, Now you are ready for "Mandingo"

Reviews

Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
Until this moment we cannot be certain that the movie is going to employ every cliche of antebellum melodrama.
by rottentomatoes, Oct 14, 2013
Sam Adams
AV Club
Viewed with fresh eyes, it can credibly be seen as revisionist history of a particularly savage kind.
by rottentomatoes, Oct 14, 2013
Mike Emery
Austin Chronicle
This is a deeply depressing film. The main problem is that shock value is the centerpiece, so the theme of slavery is just a vehicle for horrific gore and interracial sex.
by rottentomatoes, Oct 14, 2013

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