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.
Mandingo
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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.
Director
Richard Fleischer
Status
Released
Production
The De Laurentiis Company
Cast
Perry King
Hammond Maxwell
James Mason
Warren Maxwell
Susan George
Blanche Woodford Maxwell
Ken Norton
Mede (Ganymede)
Richard Ward
Agamemnon
Brenda Sykes
Ellen
Lillian Hayman
Lucrezia Borgia
Roy Poole
Doc Redfield
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Cicero
Paul Benedict
Brownlee
Ben Masters
Charles Woodford
Ray Spruell
Wallace
Louis Turenne
De Veve
Duane Allen
Topaz
Earl Maynard
Babouin
Beatrice Winde
Lucy
Debbi Morgan
Dite
Irene Tedrow
Mrs. Redfield
Reda Wyatt
Big Pearl
Simone McQueen
Madam Caroline
Evelyn Hendrickson
Beatrix
Stanley J. Reyes
Major Woodford
John Barber
Le Toscan
Durwyn Robinson
Meg
Kerwin Robinson
Alph
Deborah Ann Young
Tense
Debra Blackwell
Blonde Girl
Sylvia Kuumba Williams
Black Mother
Stocker Fontelieu
Wilson
Edwin Edwards
Gambler
Warren Kenner
Laura Misch Owens
Prostitute
Rosemary Tichenor
Slave-Buying Woman
Sylvester Stallone
Lynching Witness (uncredited)
Video Gallery
Mandingo 1975 theatrical trailer
Josh Olson on MANDINGO
