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Mandingo

Mandingo

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 6, 1975

Runtime

2h 7m

Genres

Romance, Drama, History

User Score

67%

Original Title

Mandingo

Production Companies

The De Laurentiis Company, Paramount Pictures

Director

Richard Fleischer

Description

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.