
Drum was born to white prostitute Marianna, who raises him with her black lesbian lover Rachel. He grows up to be a fighter and is often forced to bare-knuckle-box other slaves for the entertainment of the owners, including gay Frenchman Bernard. Bernard wants to sleep with Drum and vows revenge against him when he rejects him. Drum and his friend Blaise are eventually sold to plantation owner Hammond and taken to his plantation to work. Hammond also purchases Regine and brin... (Full plot summary below)
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Drum was born to white prostitute Marianna, who raises him with her black lesbian lover Rachel. He grows up to be a fighter and is often forced to bare-knuckle-box other slaves for the entertainment of the owners, including gay Frenchman Bernard. Bernard wants to sleep with Drum and vows revenge against him when he rejects him. Drum and his friend Blaise are eventually sold to plantation owner Hammond and taken to his plantation to work. Hammond also purchases Regine and brings her to the plantation as his own personal bedwench, but Hammond's fiancée Augusta is jealous and has other plans for her. Hammond's daughter Sophie wants to sleep with Drum, but he won't for fear of being killed. Sophie also attempts to sleep with Blaise; after he rejects her, she tells her father that he raped her. It's a lie, but Hammond puts Blaise in chains and decides to have him castrated for the alleged rape. In fact, the best way to castrate a slave is a conversation topic at the dinner party that has been arranged to celebrate Hammond and Augusta's engagement; Bernard is a guest. During the party Drum frees Blaise from his chains, and the other slaves launch a violent uprising. Bernard shoots Blaise during the fighting and Drum grabs Bernard's privates and rips them off. Both slaves and slavers are killed during the battle, but Drum saves Hammond and Augusta.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzTrashy and bloodier sequel to Mandingo (1975). |
| User ReviewMarrick AEvery American should watch this movie once. It should be required viewing in high school history classes. |
| User ReviewMichael P82% "I love you Claudia, but maybe niggers shouldn't love."-Drum (Ken Norton) I'll bet, two bits, that Tarantino loves this flick. "Blind is the color of freedom."-Blaise (Yaphet Kotto) |
| User ReviewJonathan DFollow up to MANDINGO is respectable in its own right with slave Norton sold to plantation owner Warren Oates and leading a revolt. Good cast makes up for Norton's deficiencies in the lead. |
| User ReviewBlack Fthe thing about the slavery back drop...it connected me. seeing slave sold nd fight for the amusement of their gambling masters, was very demeaning and infuriating. now, the film isn't that great. the acting is as good as a shoe sandwich. yaphet kotto was probably the best actor as blaise. other than the subject matter, this was meh. |
| User Reviewdelysid ddrum is the son of mandingo, he gets stuck in a sex farm |
| User ReviewScott CNote: This is not a serious film. Believe it or not, it's parody of the days of slavery. That sounds like it's in unbearably poor taste. It is and it isn't. Picture a Quentin Tarantino movie set in slave times and you have this picture (note: Tarantino is supposedly working on a similarly themed film). I can see people being offended by it, but the makers meant well and the film does manage to depict the full on ugliness of slavery-something that hasn't been seen much since the 70s. This is a guilty pleasure - if you are not offended easily, this will be sure to entertain. |
| User ReviewRoberto RA rather crass, sexist, racist and homophobic stupid movie, so i loved it and found it very entertaining. Warren Oates (as ever) is very watchable as he spits out his dialogue, aggressively accreting his role as the master slave owner. John Colicos is ridiculously camp as a perverted, sadistic, french, homosexual slave driver. The dialogue, while being quite shocking for a modern audience, would, i hazard a guess; is how they spoke about slaves and how the slaves spoke to each other! We see them in this film as uneducated, they are basically used as cattle. It is a shame that Pam Grier (or as she is credited as Pamela Grier ) has a very minor role as Hammond Maxwell (Oates) 'bed Wrench" and a romantic interest for Drum (Ken Norton). So it is mostly Blaxploitation and a cheap excuse to show some naked breast (which all the actresses do in this film) and lots of violence! A great laugh! |
| User ReviewBill Nweak! they simply could not capture the visceral authenticity of the novels. |