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.

• DirectorRichard Fleischer
• Release6 June 1975
• Genre
  Romance / Drama
• Duration2h 7m
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• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  6.7
  140 reviews
• Productions

  The De Laurentiis Company, Paramount Pictures