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Mandingo

1975

Richard Fleischer

James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Roy Poole ...

6.5

873

Adventure. Drama This overheated melodrama tells the story of a proud slave-owning family in the antebellum South and their eventual descent into adultery, incest, and sexual congress with those of other races. There's a Southern belle who's a panting nymphomaniac, a white man who craves African flesh -- and every black male is a well-endowed sexual stallion. Louisiana plantation life around 1840 is the setting for this racy drama based on the book by Kyle Onstott. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Sam Adams AV Club	"Viewed with fresh eyes, it can credibly be seen as revisionist history of a particularly savage kind."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Mandingo' is racist trash, obscene in its manipulation of human beings and feelings, and excruciating to sit through in an audience made up largely of children"	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"It is acted with enormous gusto (...) Good to see Fleischer returning to the kind of psycho-pathological thriller that he can handle so well."	POS
United States	Fernando F. Croce Slant	"[It] is excessive (...) yet its excesses invariably reveal the caustic truths of social critique (...) The film still remains incendiary (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"One of the most neglected and underrated Hollywood films of its era (...) It's doubtful whether many more insightful and penetrating movies about American slavery exist."	POS

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