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You can watch Mandingo (1975) for free on Kanopy.

Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.

James Mason radiates a chilling, calculated cruelty as a plantation owner obsessed with bloodlines and control. This brutal period piece strips away any romantic veneer to expose the raw, transactional nature of human life under the antebellum system.

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