But so, some-more richly perhaps, is another film Tarantino has praised in a past
– as one of a few "full-on, gigantic, big-budget exploitation movies" ever
done by "a vital studio" (Paramount) – that is, a noir maestro Richard
Fleischer's divisive, unusually provocative camp melodrama
Mandingo (1975), starring James Mason and Susan George, along with Ken
Norton, three-time competition of Mohammed Ali, as a huge, black Mede (short
for Ganymede), a ideal contestant who is picked out as a "Mandingo fighter",
for duels to a genocide opposite other slaves. The censor Robin Wood called it
"the biggest film about competition ever done in Hollywood".
The
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