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Director:
Gérard Kikoïne
Writers:
Rupert Gilchrist (novel)
Rick Marx (writer)
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Release Date:
8 November 1989 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean... more | add synopsis
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Trashy to the core more (6 total)

Cast

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Oliver Reed ... Captain Shanks

Eartha Kitt ... Naomi

Herbert Lom ... Gaston Le Farge
Kimber Sissons ... Jane Abde
Claudia Udy ... Arabella

Patrick Warburton ... Richard Abdee
Dennis Folbigge ... Governor Warburton
Ron Smerczak ... Sergeant
Martin Dewee ... Calabra
Charles Comyn ... Louis
Charmaine Obermeyer ... Sabina
David Phetoe ... Isaac
Sipho Madonda ... Nero
Juliet Mazamisa ... Sugarloaf (as Juliette Mazamisa)
Jimmy Gomane ... Jimmy
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Runtime:
93 min | Germany:86 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Iceland:16

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Captain Shanks: [after seeing Richard Abdee rendered unconscious by 100 blows with a whip] Give 'im another hundred! more
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Followed by Master of Dragonard Hill (1989) more

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Trashy to the core, 21 July 2007
Author: Tura23 from United States

You don't see many sexplotiation films in which the men are as exploited as the women, but Dragonard is a rare exception. Based on a popular series of bodice-ripper novels of the era, this film spends as much time lovingly displaying the young Patrick Warburton's muscular (and furry) torso as it does advancing its laughable plot.

The plot (what there is of it) deals with the mistreatment and eventual uprising of slaves in Jamaica. The audiences is treated to lots of slaves being whipped (both male and female). Dragonard features every romance novel cliché you can think of. Bright eyed upper class ladies lusting over supple male slaves, whores in powdered and ren-faire style corsetts,etc. Eartha Kitt seems to enjoy growling her way through every scene, and Oliver Reed shows up every once in awhile to shout drunkenly at the other actors.

As for Warburton, his main job in the film seems to be looking pretty, his character is supposed to be Scottish, but he hasn't bothered with an accent. Fortunately for him film is light on dialogue, preferring instead to focus on the sort of fake sex which was the stock and trade of the 1980's softcore T&A movie.

As a lover of trashy movies I was kind of hoping that this one would be a little more exploitive, insead it's not much more than a standard issue romance movie targeted (I think) to bored suburban housewives. If it were remade today Warburton's role would probably be played by Fabio.

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