--- product_id: 5900748 title: "Mandingo" price: "€ 34.30" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/5900748-mandingo store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Mandingo **Price:** € 34.30 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Mandingo - **How much does it cost?** € 34.30 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/5900748-mandingo) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Product Description Based on the best-selling book, Mandingo is a shocking look at plantation life in the Deep South. Mede (Ken Norton) is a slave whose master, Hammond Maxwell (Perry King), intends on keeping him as a prizefighter. As Maxwell focuses his attention on his wenches and Mede's brutal training, his neglected wife (Susan George) turns her passions towards Mede himself. The sordid doings explode across the screen as Mandingo plays out its savage and dramatic story. Review Up to now Legend Films has been a company mainly known for its colorization technology. (Ray Harryhausen used its system to apply a wash of tints to his 1957 20 Million Miles to Earth. ) But Legend also has a DVD division that has just grown larger with the licensing of 32 vintage titles from Paramount Pictures, a welcome development in light of Paramount s apparent reluctance to exploit its studio library. And none of these Paramount-Legend films, this purist notes with relief, are in need of the company s primary service: all were originally filmed in color, a few even in the glorious three-strip Technicolor process.[...]The big title in this first group is Richard Fleischer s 1975 Mandingo, a back-alley parody of Gone With the Wind based on a lascivious 1957 best seller by Kyle Onstott. All that dewy-eyed antebellum melodramas so carefully repress returns here with a vengeance. James Mason, wallowing in a deep Dixie accent, is Warren Maxwell, the run-down proprietor of a run-down plantation whose two great concerns in life are finding appropriate breeding partners for his prize female slave, Ellen (Brenda Sykes), and his only son, an Adonis with a gimpy leg played by Perry King.Maxwell s efforts at human husbandry go luridly awry when the partner he finds for Ellen the former heavyweight champion Ken Norton as a fighting slave begins a culturally unthinkable relationship with a not-so-shrinking Southern belle, played by the British actress Susan George. With its scenes of incest and infanticide (at no additional charge), Mandingo can hardly be accused of taking a sober, dignified approach to its subject, but when the historical context is itself obscene, transgressions are justified. That the film is still a hot potato more than three decades after it was made is a tribute to its undiminished power to provoke. --Dave Kehr of The New York Times Review: Harsh Realities, Warped Logic, Sexual Subjugation & Chicainery In The 1830's Deep South!! - This film is still controversial and shocking some 34 yrs after it's first debut in theatres! I remember hearing my parents discuss this film in shocked disbelief after they'd gone to see it back in 1975!---And the first season of SNL did a hilarious sketch parody of it which is still among their more legendary and cutting edge sketches of all time! (-: The subject of slavery itself is unbelievable enough, and that white people of means in the antebellum south deemed/justified it as god's natural order for over 300 yrs is mind-boggling, but yes, it exsisted, and untold atrocities rivaling or perhaps even eclipsing those of WW2 Nazi Germany abounded during this time! (It was just never chronicled!) This film was the first to address it from the sexual dynamics; The handsome, lustful and virile slavemaster's son, played wonderfully by the absolutely gorgeous (when he was young!) Perry King, who is so spoiled on having his pleasure with the most desirable of the black female slaves that he & his father owns, that he doesn't desire nor know how to even relate to a white woman, who the antebellum man placed on such a high & patronizing moral pedestal that the idea of her being a sexual being was considered almost a sacrilage! So it was deemed as a rite of passage for white fathers and sons of that time to explore all of their most depraved, animalistic, strident and hedonistic flights of the white male sexual imagination with their black slave women on a regular basis! This was expected, accepted and not frowned upon by "polite" white society (male or female) of that time, so they indulged themselves freely while keeping up appearances and having their white wives and children, cultivating wealth, and maintaining the warped social order of the pre-civil war south. Perry King's character, Hammond, has a special predilection for the virgin slave women who had yet to feel the passion of another man's embrace, so that he could properly "break them in" to his liking! There is an almost ritualistic approach to this practice and he has a sense of entitlement about it, while of course, the black slave women have no say in the matter. He is a very contridictory character...one who embodies the times he lives in perfectly. He has unusual compassion and tolerance for his slaves, yet exacts brutal reprimand on them when they fall outside of lines of the strict white supremist master/slave social order! He beds black women every night, yet refrains from kissing, caressing, showing real affection for them, only "utilizing them" for his pleasure...because to show affection with them in bed is to consider their humanity, and that would fly in the face of all of the warped double standard-laden idiotic backwards logic of his times! He makes ONE exception though, later in the film. There is so much contridiction, chicainery (an old word from that time, that meant trickery, double-dealing, etc.), racial taboos, sexuality, brutality, etc., in this very unique film, that it amazes me that it got past the censors of that time! Even though it was the mid 70's & in the middle of the sexual revolution, this was rad stuff! Without going scene by scene and giving away the movie for people who have yet to see it, it just suffices to say that this is not the typical slavery era drama in the tradition of ROOTS, QUEEN, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN, etc.!!--This goes much deeper and shows a much more realistic & seedier side of slavery and the antebellum southern social morays that many may find offensive to their modern PC sensibilities! But this film was very well done for it's time, had a great cast of credible actors, the production and direction of Dino De Laurentis and others, as well as being well written. There is much more going on here than a white slave owner who buys a prized mandingo fighting stud (played by pro boxer Ken Norton) to breed with his best female slaves like cattle, to produce a stable of super-stud fighting slaves which he plans to sell and exploit like fighting chickens...there are the dynamics of interracial love & sex, the explosion of the myth of the prystine lilly white princess (played by Susan George) with no sense of her own sexuality, incest issues, and horrible racial folkloric beliefs that have to be seen to believed!--The father of Perry King's character is played by veteran actor, the late James Mason, who is a downright despicable racist who does/ says some terrible things in this film, but like I said before, that's how it was then and what alot of whites believed! You can't look at it through 2009 sensibilities, you have to go back there to the 1830's. I first saw this movie for myself on cable late one night when I was in my teens, then I never saw or heard of it again until it was released to DVD in 2008. This is still an amazing piece of film history that packs a punch and pushes buttons of racial/sexual/social dynamics which are still struggled with today! Everybody who I have shown this movie to has been moved in every kind of way, on every level you can imagine!-- Check it out for sure! Review: MANDINGO - A LITTLE HISTORY FOR MY COLLECTION . AWESOME MOVIE! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B0016LFG4M | | Actors | Brenda Sykes, James Mason, Perry King, Richard Ward, Susan George | | Aspect Ratio | 1.78:1 | | Best Sellers Rank | #9,698 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #285 in Romance (Movies & TV) #1,358 in Drama DVDs | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,771) | | Director | Richard Fleischer | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No | | MPAA rating | R (Restricted) | | Media Format | Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen | | Number of discs | 1 | | Product Dimensions | 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.88 ounces | | Release date | June 3, 2008 | | Run time | 2 hours and 7 minutes | | Studio | Legend Films | ## Product Details - **Color:** Color - **Format:** Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Widescreen - **Language:** English - **Runtime:** 2 hours and 7 minutes ## Images ![Mandingo - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91PPzaj3AtL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Harsh Realities, Warped Logic, Sexual Subjugation & Chicainery In The 1830's Deep South!! *by H***! on November 16, 2009* This film is still controversial and shocking some 34 yrs after it's first debut in theatres! I remember hearing my parents discuss this film in shocked disbelief after they'd gone to see it back in 1975!---And the first season of SNL did a hilarious sketch parody of it which is still among their more legendary and cutting edge sketches of all time! (-: The subject of slavery itself is unbelievable enough, and that white people of means in the antebellum south deemed/justified it as god's natural order for over 300 yrs is mind-boggling, but yes, it exsisted, and untold atrocities rivaling or perhaps even eclipsing those of WW2 Nazi Germany abounded during this time! (It was just never chronicled!) This film was the first to address it from the sexual dynamics; The handsome, lustful and virile slavemaster's son, played wonderfully by the absolutely gorgeous (when he was young!) Perry King, who is so spoiled on having his pleasure with the most desirable of the black female slaves that he & his father owns, that he doesn't desire nor know how to even relate to a white woman, who the antebellum man placed on such a high & patronizing moral pedestal that the idea of her being a sexual being was considered almost a sacrilage! So it was deemed as a rite of passage for white fathers and sons of that time to explore all of their most depraved, animalistic, strident and hedonistic flights of the white male sexual imagination with their black slave women on a regular basis! This was expected, accepted and not frowned upon by "polite" white society (male or female) of that time, so they indulged themselves freely while keeping up appearances and having their white wives and children, cultivating wealth, and maintaining the warped social order of the pre-civil war south. Perry King's character, Hammond, has a special predilection for the virgin slave women who had yet to feel the passion of another man's embrace, so that he could properly "break them in" to his liking! There is an almost ritualistic approach to this practice and he has a sense of entitlement about it, while of course, the black slave women have no say in the matter. He is a very contridictory character...one who embodies the times he lives in perfectly. He has unusual compassion and tolerance for his slaves, yet exacts brutal reprimand on them when they fall outside of lines of the strict white supremist master/slave social order! He beds black women every night, yet refrains from kissing, caressing, showing real affection for them, only "utilizing them" for his pleasure...because to show affection with them in bed is to consider their humanity, and that would fly in the face of all of the warped double standard-laden idiotic backwards logic of his times! He makes ONE exception though, later in the film. There is so much contridiction, chicainery (an old word from that time, that meant trickery, double-dealing, etc.), racial taboos, sexuality, brutality, etc., in this very unique film, that it amazes me that it got past the censors of that time! Even though it was the mid 70's & in the middle of the sexual revolution, this was rad stuff! Without going scene by scene and giving away the movie for people who have yet to see it, it just suffices to say that this is not the typical slavery era drama in the tradition of ROOTS, QUEEN, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN, etc.!!--This goes much deeper and shows a much more realistic & seedier side of slavery and the antebellum southern social morays that many may find offensive to their modern PC sensibilities! But this film was very well done for it's time, had a great cast of credible actors, the production and direction of Dino De Laurentis and others, as well as being well written. There is much more going on here than a white slave owner who buys a prized mandingo fighting stud (played by pro boxer Ken Norton) to breed with his best female slaves like cattle, to produce a stable of super-stud fighting slaves which he plans to sell and exploit like fighting chickens...there are the dynamics of interracial love & sex, the explosion of the myth of the prystine lilly white princess (played by Susan George) with no sense of her own sexuality, incest issues, and horrible racial folkloric beliefs that have to be seen to believed!--The father of Perry King's character is played by veteran actor, the late James Mason, who is a downright despicable racist who does/ says some terrible things in this film, but like I said before, that's how it was then and what alot of whites believed! You can't look at it through 2009 sensibilities, you have to go back there to the 1830's. I first saw this movie for myself on cable late one night when I was in my teens, then I never saw or heard of it again until it was released to DVD in 2008. This is still an amazing piece of film history that packs a punch and pushes buttons of racial/sexual/social dynamics which are still struggled with today! Everybody who I have shown this movie to has been moved in every kind of way, on every level you can imagine!-- Check it out for sure! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ MANDINGO *by S***N on January 1, 2026* A LITTLE HISTORY FOR MY COLLECTION . AWESOME MOVIE! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great film. (Get the Olive bluray!) *by A***. on May 4, 2020* ASIN# B014L2Y33M Though I'd give this Olive Films bluray edition three stars. (No extras, no subtitles.) On the plus side: excellent cover art, the picture and sound is vastly improved. Worth the upgrade from the budget priced Legend release (which looks awful). One of the most neglected and underrated Hollywood films of its era, Richard Fleischer’s blistering and undeniably lurid 1975 melodrama about a slave-breeding plantation in the Deep South, set in the 1840s, was widely and unjustly ridiculed as camp in this country when it came out. But apart from this film, Herbert J. Biberman’s 1969 Slaves, and Charles Burnett’s 1996 Nightjohn, it’s doubtful whether many more insightful and penetrating movies about American slavery exist. The director, Richard Fleischer is the most famous filmmaker you (might've) never heard of - his imdb page lists almost a hundred films - some truly great, most of which you have seen. An aside: Quentin Tarantino’s thigh-slapping Django Unchained — a film so historically whimsical that it can show us a slave who’s an expert marksman, can read, and even puts on sunglasses after he becomes a free man — clearly isn’t one of them; at best it’s another Tarantino Pulp Adventure for ten-year-old boys — ten-year-old girls need not apply. That said, I liked it. QT definitely got a "pass" from the majority of critics. (Django gets his revenge after 90 minutes of degregation - a happy PC/ wish-fullfiment ending that placated the liberal (and Urban) audiences. Curiously, this same "logic" doesn't apply to movies such as I Spit on Your Grave and the like. Odd. Scripted by Norman Wexler (Joe, Saturday Night Fever) from a sensationalist novel by Kyle Onstott; with James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward, Brenda Sykes, and Ken Norton, who all give brave and fantastic performances. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/5900748-mandingo](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/5900748-mandingo) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-04-22*