- Country: USA
- Genres: Drama, History, Romance
- Release: 1975-07-25
- Director: Richard Fleischer
- Writers: Kyle Onstott , Jack Kirkland , Norman Wexler
- Language: English | French
- Stars: James Mason , Susan George , Perry King , Richard Ward , Brenda Sykes , Ken Norton , Lillian Hayman , Roy Poole , Ji-Tu Cumbuka , Paul Benedict
- Runtime: 127 min
- Awards: 1 win
- AKA: Mandingo (Greece) , Mandingo (Italy) , Мандинго (Serbia) , マンディンゴ (Japan) , Mandingo (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Mandingo (Canada) , Bitmeyen Kavga (Turkey) , Mandingo (Singapore) , Mandingo (United Kingdom) , Мандинго , Mandingo (United States of America) , Mandingo (Australia) , Mandingo - O Fruto da Vingança (Brazil) , Mandingo (Spain) , Mandingo (Denmark) , Mandingo (Canada) , Zincirli Köle (Turkey) , Mandingo (Finland) , Mandingo , Mandingo (Peru) , Mandingo (Austria) , Mandingo (Argentina) , Mandingo , Mandingo (South Africa) , Mandingo (India) , Mandingo (France, French Republic)
- Plot: 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.
- IMDB:tt0073349
Mandingo Cast · · · ALL
Richard Fleischer
Director
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
(I)
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
Stanley J. Reyes
Major Woodford
John Barber
Le Toscan
Stocker Fontelieu
Wilson
Laura Misch Owens
Prostitute
Sylvester Stallone
Lynching Witness (uncredited)