The slave hell of the Mandingos
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The slave hell of the Mandingos |
| Original title | Drum |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Steve Carver |
| script | Norman Wexler |
| production |
Ralph B. Serpe , Dino De Laurentiis |
| music | Charlie Smalls |
| camera | Lucien Ballard |
| cut | Carl Kress |
| occupation | |
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The slave hell of the Mandingos (Original title: Drum ) is an American action film from 1976 , which is based on the novel of the same name by Kyle Onstott . Directed by Steve Carver , the script was written by Norman Wexler . The film was published by United Artists and is a sequel to the 1975 film Mandingo. It stars Warren Oates , Pam Grier and Ken Norton .
action
This film takes up the story 15 years after the events of the first film. Drum was born to a white prostitute who raised him with her black lesbian lover.
Drum grows up as a slave and is forced by the white slave owners to engage in brutal fights with other slaves for their entertainment. One of the slaveholders is the gay French named Bernard DeMarigny, who wants to sleep with Drum. But the slave refuses and DeMarigny swears vengeance. Drum and his friend Blaise are eventually sold to the plantation owner Hammond Maxwell. Both have to work on his plantation. Drum's friend Regine is also bought by Maxwell and taken to the plantation to serve as a sex slave for him.
After arriving at Maxwell's plantation, Regine has to sleep with Hammond and then with Drum. Augusta Chauvel is Maxwell's fiancée and she has other plans for Regine. Maxwell's daughter Sophie wants to sleep with Drum, but he doesn't want to for fear of being killed. Sophie also tries to sleep with Blaise and after being rejected she tells her father that Blaise raped her, which is a lie. Blaise is chained and Maxwell decides he needs to be neutered for the alleged rape.
A dinner party has now been set up to celebrate Maxwell and Chauvel's engagement. DeMarigny was invited to attend the celebration and the guests at the end discuss the best way to castrate a slave at the dinner party. While the party is on, Drum frees Blaise from his chains and it leads to a violent uprising by the slaves at the engagement party. DeMarigny shoots Blaise during the fight and Drum in turn grabs DeMarigny's private parts and rips them off. Both slaves and slave owners are killed during the battle, but Maxwell and Chauvel are rescued by Drum. In recognition of saving his family, Maxwell releases Drum, and Drum runs out into the night.
production
Initially, Burt Kennedy worked as a director. He was replaced because of an artistic confrontation with Dino De Laurentiis . Carver took over the direction. He only had four days to do it. Later scenes were taken in the films that Kennedy had already made.
reception
Vincent Canby of The New York Times criticized the film for "being historically incorrect". The lexicon of international film describes the film as a "staging of unimaginative unimaginability that can hardly be beaten" as well as a "speculation product with evil racist markings."
Web links
- The slaves hell of Mandingo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The slaves hell of Mandingo at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The slave hell of the Mandingos. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Kyle Onstott: Drum . Dial Press, 1962.
- ^ Susan Compo: Warren Oates: A Wild Life . University Press of Kentucky, April 17, 2009, ISBN 0-8131-7332-9 , pp. 351-.
- ↑ Canby, Vincent : Drum (1976) . In: The New York Times . July 31, 1976.