Mandingo poster
Director Richard Fleischer
Screenplay Norman Wexler
Writer Jack Kirkland

Mandingo

Tagline: Expect The Savage. The Sensual. The Shocking. The Sad. The Powerful. The Shameful. Expect The Truth.

Release Date: 1975-06-06

Duration: 127 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Sylvester Stallone
    Lynching Witness (uncredited)
  • Susan George
    Blanche Woodford Maxwell
  • James Mason
    Warren Maxwell
  • Paul Benedict
    Brownlee
  • Perry King
    Hammond Maxwell
  • Irene Tedrow
    Mrs. Redfield
  • Richard Ward
    Agamemnon
  • Beatrice Winde
    Lucy
  • Ken Norton
    Mede (Ganymede)
  • Ji-Tu Cumbuka
    Cicero