Episode 357: Mandingo (1975)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

We're heading to Falconhurst and looking at the unlikely hit film Mandingo (1975), the book series that informed it and its sequel, and the knock-offs in its wake. Richard Fleischer's film stars Ken Norton as Mede, the titular Mandingo, while James Mason and Perry King are the father and son who run Falconhurst, a slave-breeding plantation.
Greg Klymkiw (UFO Doggies, Careful) and writer Paul Talbot (Mondo Mandingo: The Falconhurst Books and Films) join Mike to discuss Mandingo, it's sequel Drum, and several other sordid slavery-themed films (including the remarkable Addio Zio Tom).
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:09.1	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:13.8	All the shocking realism, all the magnificence and depravity.
0:18.3	In Africa, my people are born free.
0:23.6	That's right. Free men. Not slaves.
0:25.6	I want to please you.
0:28.6	You need a white lady to give your son with human blood.
0:38.1	I wouldn't know what to do.
0:39.7	You'd want to know white lady.
0:41.1	You'll keep on your shirt and throws.
0:43.3	Plague's a white lady most of the day to see a man naked.
0:45.8	Don't kiss me yet.
0:48.8	Unless it's just a cousin kiss.
0:56.0	No, go back. Leave. No, stop me.
0:57.0	No, you can't.
1:03.0	All the passion of the explosive novel that sold over nine and a half million copies has now been brought to the screen.
1:11.6	Mandingo!
1:12.6	Your friend, Mandingo!
1:14.6	Mandingo!
1:17.6	4,000!
1:18.6	I'll pay more, five hundred more!
1:20.6	Do you see me, Hank?
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