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Mandingo really has to be seen to be believed. It's hard to decide if you despise the white owners or the black slaves more at the end of it all. I'd say this film singlehandedly set civil rights back at least fifty years. Oh, and if gross but corny depictions of slavery aren't enough, it has some miscegenation and incest sprinkled in. Back in the '70s, SNL did a skit of it. Garret Morris was the slave woman and O.J. Simpson was the mandingo. So, this film was an embarassment back when it was made and it's only gotten worse with time.

Mandingo is to slave era movies (like Roots) what Plan 9 From Outer Space is to science fiction movies.

My favorite line: "Ja, ja, dry du zteal de neegger frrom der poor vidow voman!". Priceless.