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24 June 2008 9:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Considering that Richard Fleischer's 1955 film Violent Saturday made small-town America look like a roiling cesspit, it's unsurprising that his 1975 feature Mandingo, set on a slave plantation in the Deep South, is a sordid wallow in antebellum depravity. Like the crumbling mansion at its center, Mandingo is a rotting remnant of the old South's glory days: It's Gone With The Wind gone rancid. Plantation owner James Mason puts on the airs of a courtly gentleman, but he's a brutal, superstitious creature at heart. Early on, he's convinced that the best cure for his persistent "rheumatis" is to sleep with his feet pressed against a naked slave child, allowing the foul humors to drain into the boy's stomach. Intent on securing the future of his name, Mason is eager to marry off his son, Perry King, who shows more interest in deflowering female slaves than wooing white women. King...

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1 article from 2008