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Based on the hugely successful novel by Kyle Onstott, Mandingo takes the audience beyond the sentimentalized South of other films with uncompromising honesty and realism to show the true brutalizing nature of slavery, which made victims of both owner and slave. Heavyweight boxer Ken Norton makes his screen debut in the title role, with Perry King (Possession of Joel Delaney) as his white owner, friend, and eventual nemesis.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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31%- Reviews Counted: 16
- Fresh: 5
- Rotten: 11
- Average Rating: 4.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Until this moment we cannot be certain that the movie is going to employ every cliche of antebellum melodrama.
Rotten: Embarrassing and crude.
Rotten: Mandingo is racist trash, obscene in its manipulation of human beings and feelings, and excruciating to sit through.
Customer Reviews
Wow this was something....
To me this movie was ahead of its time and still is there has yet to be a movie that showed the ugly side of slavery so many times when we watch movies about slavery it seems to hide alot of the ugly truths. The subject was great the acting to me was sort of bad thats why i gave it a three stars.
Pantswettingly Bad
Whoever wrote the iTunes review of this film and dared to call it realistic needs to be taken out to the woodshed. It's about the most absurd film ever made, historically inaccurate, weakly written, horribly acted, and just generally a waste of celluloid; I think the only reason it ever got any publicity at all was the interracial sex scenes, which were outrageous and scandalous to viewers in 1975, when this was originally released. If it had been just ten degrees worse, it probably would have achieved cult classic status. If it had been ten degrees better, it'd still have been terrible.
Why is this film a part of the black history category?
Mandigo is an extremely tacky, ridiculously melodramatic rendering of interacial romance in the old south. It has no part in a serious collection of material on black history and culture. Its inclusion in that section is offensive.
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- $14.99
- Genre: Drama
- Released: 2003
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