Mandingo

Mandingo (1975)

  • 36% of critics liked it
    (11 reviews)

  • 61% of users liked it
    (562 ratings)

Richard Fleischer directed this lurid historical drama based on the novel by Kyle Onstott. The story begins on a run-down plantation lorded over by Warren Maxwell (James Mason) and his son Hammond (Perry King). Hammond travels to New Orleans where he buys a top-of-the-line slave, Mede (Ken Norton),… More

In Theaters
Jul 25, 1975 Wide
On DVD
Jun 3, 2008

Critic Reviews

  • , Time Out

    Good to see Fleischer returning to the kind of psycho-pathological thriller that he can handle so well.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    One of the most neglected and underrated Hollywood films of its era.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    At least offers no tears for the demise of the good ole days in Dixie.

  • Fernando F. Croce, Slant Magazine

    Mandingo is excessive, yet its excesses invariably reveal the caustic truths of social critique.

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    The performances are overdramatized and unbelievable in a script that suffers from the same weaknesses.

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  • Chris W


    Released near the end of the blaxploitation era, this is one of the few exploitation films of that time that, instead of being a crime drama set in a (then) contemporary urban area, is a lurid melodrama set in the Antebellum Deep South. It's also kinda significant to note that it… More

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