Slavers (1978)

Director:

Jürgen Goslar

Writers:

Jürgen Goslar, Nathaniel Kohn,

Stars:

Trevor Howard, Britt Ekland, Ron Ely

Cast

Credited cast:
Trevor Howard	...	Alec Mackenzie
Britt Ekland	...	Anna von Erken
Ron Ely	...	Steven Hamilton
Jürgen Goslar	...	Max von Erken
Cameron Mitchell	...	Da Silva
Ray Milland	...	Hassan
Vera Jesse	...	Frances Parry
Ken Gampu	...	Musulna
Helen Morgan	...	Malika
Larry Taylor	...	Williams
Erik Schumann	...	Bill Parry
Brian O'Shaughnessy	...	O'Connor
Rinaldo Talamonti	...	Cabral
Arthur Brauss	...	Rustam
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eckhard Block	...	Diaz

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

africa | tribe | nudity | torture | jungle | 

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Taglines:

Now, in the tradition of "Roots" and "Mandingo" the true brutal story of the African slave trade!

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama | History | War

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

6 June 1980 (USA)

Also Known As:

Die Sklavenjäger

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lord Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

102 min 94 min (video)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Goofs

The closing credits list "Costum Designer" (instead of costume designer), and "Make-up women" (it should read "make-up woman", since there is only one woman listed for doing make-up, it should be singular not plural)

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Connections

Referenced in The New York Ripper (1982)

User Reviews

Better then the usual slavery exploitation film

Period set tale of the slave trade in Africa and how the nominal hero, Ron Ely goes from supporting it to instead helping to end it. Good melodramatic story is full of all of the exploitation hallmarks you'd expect- nudity, violence, general bad behavior-, but done less garishly and over the top in films like Mandingo and The Drum or any of the other films from the 70's that exploited the slave trade in the name of teaching us all a lesson. There aren't many of these films and for the most part they are a poor lot with most of the films so bad that they are funny. This one however is better then the rest even if it does get a bit melodramatic. The best thing I can say is its a watchable potboiler.