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• a.t%mWhat's HappeningstES.' f.'Mandingo'... sick, brutal!enough to make you throw up.In the first place, he can’t act. When the common German widow trying to buy him started feeling h i s privates...he didn’t change expression. He acted like some stupid bull.By Ida Peter*Mandingo” which opens around the country this week, is a distorted sick film about black and white relations in New Orleans around 1840.350 BC. Mandingoland in West Africa was described by a slave trader as having many bustling communities where people wove cotton,’ worked in leather, fabricated iron, engaged diligently in agriculture and devoted themselves to reading and writing.tation to court his bride to be.Enroute, he spends the night at a plantation to rest the horses and is given a virgin slave for the night...Ellen Brenda Sykes.Hopefully, our youn black people have. studie_ African culture and bir tory, and read John HopeFranklin’s Black Americans. They will know that slaves in 1840 did not jump into boiling water, like Mede-plaped by a stupid-acting Ken Norton, to get his hie toughened for fight-in. Because • our young blacks do know that slaves protested their enslavement day by day... by rebellion, feigned illness ih the fields, and destroying crops, anin^ls an houses.As long as you understand the contempt and hatred of the slaves for the masters of Falconhurst, Maxwell played by James Mason, and Hammond by Perry King, ...youTI be able to take the Yessah bossing”.You can sympathize with the slaves but Mandingo” equally brutalizes the white masters and white society” and makes you want to vomit'or just plain •walk-out...as three of my colleagues did at a recent screening saying they didn,t have time to watch such filth” in this day and age.Last week, Gerald Burke writing from our Washington AFRO (see Baltimore AFRO 5-13) said Paramount must have an especially grim view of its movie going public to hang a fim like Mandingo” arpund its neck. Sadly, it just could be a sign of the times that such a movie was considered marketable in the -first place”. .Briefly the old master of the decaying plantaCon has two aims in life. One. is to get his crippled son ■married to a pure white lady so he can have an heir. Two, is to own a pure-bred Mandingo because in those days slaves were his only cash crop bringing anywhere from $400 to $10,000 apiece.MANDINGOLANDThey were good hpnters an warriors and in great demand because they bred hardy, healthy workers. They were dark brown, almost blue or black people, quick to anger. Mandingo and his descendants are supposed to have led many of the slave insurrections.He then'* marries Blanche, (Susan George) and they honeymoon in New Orleans. He discovers she is not a virgin, she has been used by her brother since she was 13. She protests, . but after . all, the young master has had so many virgins he can tell. At his plantation, all the mammies save the virginsfor the young master...it’sTHE PLOTSo the young master goes| off to a neighboring plan-an honor.The young master scorns h i s new wife Blanche.THAT MAN FROM SHAFT NOW IN ONE OF THE MOST BREATHTAKING FILMS TO HIT THE TOWER!4 ACADEMYAWARDSSPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS BEST SOUNDScientific Or Technical Award (Cloaa III) Scientific Or Technical Award (Claes IDTo *YOU’LL NEVER EXPERIENCEThe gal behind me wanted to knotf what a Maningo was? Martdinka is locatedr. * XSHOWS AT:-2:00-5:10-7:20in Upper Guinea and since October. 1958 the Independent Republic of Guinea.History tells us that African culture goes back toA HR. FREE PARKING AFTER 6 P.M. AND ALL DA Y SAT. 5UN.•TOWER9 1 ChaAHS ClMU' - ^ ' » -■ ■.r . I •’ -J••i;Ellen, the young slave is his love and constant companion. .Blanche takes to drink and while the master i s . a w a y j flogs Ellen, knocks her down the stairs causing her to lose her baby.•Then she starts to yearn for Mede (Ken Norton) theMandingo bought at aslave auction during herhoneymoon. Ken Norton inthis role as a Mandingo isIn the end, Blanche has a black baby. The baby is killed and her husband kills her with poison.Mede, even though he had' no choice in' raping Blanche is shot in a jealous rage by the young master and thrown into - boiling water and' stuck with a p^chfork in the most brutal scene shown on any screen.Aside to .........Your naked scenes don’t do anything for you...you’ll beSPECIAL ENGAGEMENT-: weeks onlyiSentenced to 28 years in prison9for a crime he never committed. Only two things can get him out-A lot of money and Charles Bronson!iTV///ify vf COLUMBIA PICTURESBILLY DEEz*.WILLIAMSTHE LADY SINGS THE BLUES MANIsonUUYuuWClAiTheTake•fME 12-00 PMto#H MAYFAIR• lt;Tw«m • • 171*sexier covered up.To Ken Norton* the next time you’re asked..say no-That naked rape scene was disgusting.' You have enough stature to demand and get better protection and you don’t have to do disgusting things formoney. .To Paramount who used the little naked boy to ease the rheumatize on James Mason...did he have to put his feet the boy’s testi-cols? Somebody at Paramount should have drawn the line some*where...and.,.if yoq, you, -and you out there don’t • complain...rm complaining, for you.Things I never want to see again. Two fighters bit* * ing chunks out of each other like cannibals.VONETTA McGEEandCLINT EASTWOODTOGETHERFOR THEExpect all that the motion picture screen ■has never dared to show.before.^ - ;•v;k./ » • v » / • £ . jT'*- . T* (,rxareitMandingo’^wp**r..i v.*.te* a x..*o -»rt-••vHfcrViwn• .'It X , * (a A#.DiNO DC LAUIUWTUSBated on the bis, boHbetf xeOathat #oM ovwMANDINGO1V~JAMES MASON SUSAN GEORGE PERRY KINGRICHARD WARD BRENDA SYKES KEN NORTON as MEDEOTtarwi ULUAN HAYMAN KYLE ONSTOTT.»t«^»ifc.rUyw-Htw*c.vT JACK KIRKLAND►, NORMAN YVTXLE* » DINO DC LAJJRENT11SRRESTRtCTEC ^MAJJRiCL JARgp RALPH SWPtv, JUCHARD FLCISCHCR TTCHNICOIXM^A PARAMOUNT REUASKEXCLUSIVE MARYLAND PREMIERESHOWS AT: DAILY—10:30-12:37-2:44-4:51-6:57-9:16 P.M. SUNDAY—2:00-4:27-6:S4-9:21 P.M.■ (*■MEWPAEUC 8r LEXINGTON • SA. 7-7l0tSTARRINGNBA ROOKIEfor someone.with the light touiA f I,:OF THE YEARAND STAR OF THEGOLDEN STATEartd'Cornlwea^ipp-was..gonna- #ptty ^*3,' 3‘the
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Baltimore Afro American
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Sat, May 24, 1975
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