Main Cast: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Ken Norton, Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto
Release Year: 1976
Country: US
Run Time: 100 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
It is hard to get more deliriously fever-pitched than the ending of Mandingo -- in which a plantation master is shot and his main slave gets boiled in oil -- but Drum (Mandingo's mangy sequel) certainly tries. Hammond Maxwell (Warren Oates), the late slave-owner's son (from Mandingo), is trying to follow in his father's footsteps and purchases Drum (Ken Norton) and Blaise (Yaphet Kotto) from bordello hostess Marianna (Isela Vega). Marianna is actually Drum's mother, although her lesbian lover Rachel (Paula Kelly) in fact brought up the boy. Thrown into the package to Hammond is Drum's girlfriend Regine (Pam Grier), who was purchased to satisfy the carnal urges of Mr. Hammond. However, Augusta Chauvet (Fiona Lewis), setting her sites on Hammond, has other plans. Drum is such a perfect specimen of slave that neither men nor women can keep their hands off of him. Drum looks stoic until a climactic slave revolt breaks out, guaranteeing more blood and carnage than Mandingo could ever hope to provide. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Bill Kenney - Art Director, Eddie Smith - Coordinator, Peter Bogart - First Assistant Director, Steve Carver - Director, Carl Kress - Editor, Charlie Smalls - Composer (Music Score), Charlie Smalls - Musical Direction/Supervision, Stan Jolley - Production Designer, Lucien Ballard - Cinematographer, Dino de Laurentiis - Producer, Ralph Serpe - Producer, John McCarthy - Set Designer, Bill Varney - Sound/Sound Designer, Robert Gravenor - Sound/Sound Designer, James M. Halty - Stunts, Norman Wexler - Screenwriter, Kyle Onstott - Book Author
Drum is the 1976 sequel to the movie Mandingo, and released by United Artists. Starring Warren Oates and Ken Norton, it parodies on nineteenth century Americanslavery like its predecessor. It became popular among black audiences at grindhouses due to a scene in which a slave literally tears out the testicles of a white slave driver.
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