Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Mandingo is an Eye Opener:

ROOTS was to make viewers sympathize for the plight of the African-American, and MANDINGO was to make viewers cringe and forget that the slavery south ever existed. The film had this viewer wanting to turn it off, but wanting to see what was going to happen next. Therefore, the film had done its job in its manipulation of the senses. The movie boasts an impressive and diverse cast with the respected James Mason, Perry King (Lords of Flatbush, Riptide), Susan George, Paul Benedict (tv's Jeffersons) and boxer... more info

Hollywood style stupidity:

Let's face it - Hollywood is a provincial little burg whose movers and shakers know little or nothing about anything outside of the city boundaries - from Hollywood we get amazing takes on, for example, Japanese culture: (Karate Kid part III) - the last scene of the movie looking very un-Japanese and more like a voodoo ceremony - German culture: all Germans are Jew chasing Nazis - and Italian culture: all speak Brooklynese and have Mafia relatives. So it doesn't surprise me that Hollywood would come up with... more info

hot Southern sleaze...but riveting:

Part Harold Robbins and part Euripedes, this film has brutal depictions of slavery, abhorrent language, and extraordinary cinematography by Richard Kline.
The imagery of Falconhurst, the huge but decrepit plantation of a cruel and vicious man (James Mason in a strange and brilliant performance) is fantastic; with peeling paint and filthy mosquito nets, winding staircases of gleaming wood, dark steamy rooms, and lush exteriors with drooping wisteria.
The score by Maurice Jarre also adds much to the... more info

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