Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.
- bare knuckle boxing
- slavery
- interracial relationship
- slave owner
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Perry King
Hammond Maxwell
James Mason
Warren Maxwell
Susan George
Blanche Woodford Maxwell
Ken Norton
Mede (Ganymede)
- Richard Ward — Agamemnon
- Brenda Sykes — Ellen
- Lillian Hayman — Lucrezia Borgia
- Roy Poole — Doc Redfield
- Ji-Tu Cumbuka — Cicero
- Paul Benedict — Brownlee
- Ben Masters — Charles Woodford
- Ray Spruell — Wallace
- Louis Turenne — De Veve
- Duane Allen — Topaz
- Earl Maynard — Babouin
- Directed
- Richard Fleischer
- Written
- Norman Wexler, Jack Kirkland
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 161 ratings
- Studio
- The De Laurentiis Company
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