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Director:
Steve Carver
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Writers:
Kyle Onstott (novel)
Norman Wexler (writer)
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Release Date:
27 August 1976 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Action | Drama more
Tagline:
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A RETURN TRIP TO FALCONHURST more (28 total)

Cast

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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
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Additional Details

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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 more

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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. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Fade to Black (1980) more

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A RETURN TRIP TO FALCONHURST, 17 April 2002
Author: EL BUNCHO from USA

For those who don't know: MANDINGO and DRUM are both adaptations of books from the Falconhurst plantation series of novels by Kyle Onstott and, later, Lance Horner. There were several books in the series; thus far I've run across about five or six of them!

DISCLAIMER: let me state right now that I am black and can totally understand how people are easily offended by these films. The thing is these films feature such sheer, unadulterated exploitation and overripe acting/dialogue that hardcore bad movie addicts will have a hard time NOT finding these films majorly entertaining! I flat-out admit that both MANDINGO and DRUM are among my favorite guilty pleasures, and I view them both as what would happen if John Waters could have gotten away with making a really sleazy soap opera set on a plantation. Some of the dialogue is so ridiculous that it's nearly impossible for me to take these films seriously at all, although the rape and torture does bring one back to the wretchedness of the situation.

Anyway, I don't know where those of you who claim that DRUM is not a sequel to MANDINGO got that idea. Warren Oates is playing the same character that Perry King did in the first film, only this story takes place about fifteen years later. He even makes veilled references to what happened at the end of MANDINGO, specifically the fates of Ken Norton and Susan George. In other words, PAY ATTENTION! And if you think this is exploitativve, go back and watch the uncut version of ROOTS again. Sure it's more "legit" than MANDINGO and DRUM, but it is every bit the exploitative soap opera that they are. For the real flavor and excellence of ROOTS, read the book.

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