The read
A Balasaur Score of 55 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 25%. Audiences rate it 40 points higher than critics do. The highest scoring of the 2 titles in its series.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes25%
Audiences rate it 40 points higher than critics do.
164 audience votes
Key crew
- Richard FleischerDirector
- Jack KirklandWriter
- Norman WexlerScreenplay
- Maurice JarreOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Perry KingHammond Maxwell
- James MasonWarren Maxwell
- Susan GeorgeBlanche Woodford Maxwell
- Ken NortonMede (Ganymede)
- Richard WardAgamemnon
- Brenda SykesEllen
- Lillian HaymanLucrezia Borgia
- Roy PooleDoc Redfield
- Ji-Tu CumbukaCicero
- Paul BenedictBrownlee
- Ben MastersCharles Woodford
- Ray SpruellWallace
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Themes
bare knuckle boxingslaveryinterracial relationshipslave owner