Drum (1976)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Steve Carver

Writers:

Kyle Onstott (novel)
Norman Wexler (writer)

Release Date:

27 August 1976 (West Germany)

Genre:

Action | Drama

Tagline:

The White Men Wanted A Stud To Breed Slaves. The White Women Wanted Much More ...

Plot Keywords:

Girl | African American | Female Nudity | Daughter | 1800s

Cast

Warren Oates	...	Hammond Maxwell
Isela Vega	...	Marianna
Ken Norton	...	Drum
Pam Grier	...	Regine (as Pamela Grier)
Yaphet Kotto	...	Blaise
John Colicos	...	Bernard DeMarigny
Fiona Lewis	...	Augusta Chauvet
Paula Kelly	...	Rachel
Royal Dano	...	Zeke Montgomery
Lillian Hayman	...	Lucretia Borgia
Cheryl Smith	...	Sophie Maxwell (as Rainbeaux Smith)
Alain Patrick	...	Lazare
Brenda Sykes	...	Calinda
Clay Tanner	...	Mr. Holcomb
Lila Finn	...	Mrs. Holcomb

Runtime:

110 min | UK:100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Denmark:15 (video rating) | France:-16 | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:18 | Sweden:(Banned) | UK:X | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Louisiana, USA

Company:

Dino De Laurentiis Company

Trivia:

The producer and original director Burt Kennedy had creative differences. The producer then fired him. It was the only time Burt was ever fired from a movie. Most the footage on the screen it Burt's.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Century of Black Cinema (2003) (V)

Hard to find anymore - Not for sale anywhere either.

I got a copy of it from one of those "avant garde" type video shops that pride themselves in having the hard to find stuff.

You can see this movie without having seen the pre-quel,"Mandingo" and not lose much understanding, since they make almost no references to what happened in the first movie. In fact, the plantation owner's white daughter was not in the first movie, so it really doesn't follow at all (she was in the novel "Mandingo"). Those who thought Mandingo was trashy will really be howling when they see this one....Warren Oates and the woman playing his daughter play for laughs in the middle part of the movie...(that actress went on to make X-rated movies and then dropped out of acting altogether by the mid 80s). John Colicos plays an evil homosexual....I like the overdone white trash talk though (" OH PAW! You ain't gonna marry that uppity bitch!) Great camp. Ken Norton acts like a mannequin most of the movie.....(" He might kill Blaize...or even worse, castrate him" - said with a totally expressionless face). And the dinner conversation is hilarious. ("Son I gonna give you Regine. How long you figger it take you to knock her up?). (" Miss Augusta, you jes got to get used to the fack that Falconhurst is all about n****r fornicatin'. If'n my n****rs stop fornicatin', we stops eatin'.)

Regine: You likes big titties, don't you Mistah Maxwell?

Hammond: Oh you knows I likes big titties.

Regine: Well Miss Augusta, she got BIIG titties.

And I repeat - this is supposed to be a serious movie.

The movie is in that "so bad it's good" category. Check it out, if you have a hankerin' for that genre.