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Drumx$11.46
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The sequel to "Mandingo". Set in New Orleans in 1860, a handsome brothel slave, Drum (Ken Norton), is bought by the scheming plantation owner Hammond Maxwell (Warren Oates) for the sole purpose of siring beautiful slave children. Maxwell will then sell the children in the slave market for up to $3. each. But others have designs on the attractive, powerful Drum, and many of them are women...
UPC: 876543224803
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[2.5]--Drum is a guilty pleasure
By A3C6CZC2JP67VK on 2008-02-07
I enjoyed this film to an extent. Now, the only reason why I bought this disc was because my girl Pam Grier was in it. However, its not "Roots" but it's actually decent flick. Although Warren Oates receives top billing, you may wonder where he is for the first half hour, as most of this is taken up with Drum's unpleasant encounters with DeMarigny (Colicos way over the top and in possession of an offensive accent). When Drum wins the fight with Blaise he is awarded his own woman, but he shouldn't get too comfortable because the aggressively homosexual DeMarigny has designs on him, and when spurned vows revenge. This means Drum, appropriately played by wooden boxer Norton as if he'd much rather be somewhere else, has to be relocated by Marianna to work for Oates' plantation owner Hammond Maxwell, especially after Rachel has been murdered by the Frenchman.
The highlight of the movie is the dialogue of Warren Oates who plays the Ignorant Country Hick Plantation Owner. He is hilarious and would say things like "I found you in a Ho house and you aint even a Hoe". One thing about the film is that at least you couldn't say it was exploiting the African Americans in the cast, who are portrayed as sympathetic in the main - a pity you couldn't say the same for the women in the cast, who are treated as if the best they can offer the story is to take their clothes off. Over half the actresses disrobe for the camera, which exposes the true intentions of the filmmakers, and the most thankless role goes to Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith, as the daughter of Maxwell who is determined to get one of the slaves into bed. But even Fiona Lewis, as the prospective next Mrs Maxwell, has a gratuitous bath scene and of course the naked view of Pam Grier in her master's bedroom.
So basically, if you're looking for an examination of the last years of the slave trade in America, you will be disappointed, but if you're after sexploitation, then that's what Drum is really all about.
Burn this Bedeviled Instrument!
By A3MWYPZBKL1NJ on 2006-03-13
My parents swore that they loved seeing this film in the 1970s. I was expecting to like it and it had the opposite effect. This movie is not half as good, or well-produced, as "Mandingo." The main character is supposed to be biracial, but like Tom's and Helen's children on "The Jeffersons," he is obviously played by a monoracial actor. The slaveowner's daughter is supposed to be a girl, but is clearly a woman. Like many blaxploitation films, this promotes homophobia in the form of a racist, predatory, bisexual, white character. I am as Afrocentric as the next brothaman and even I was insulted at how black equals good and white equals bad to the nth degree here. This film is not campy and will not make you nostalgic for the 1970s like "Dolemite" may have. This film was poorly done and insulting to the extreme.
TOTAL BOOTLEG - RIPOFF - BEWARE!
By A18JCJXP3VJ9M3 on 2007-07-03
Blax Films is a totally illegitimate bootlegging operation and their product is 'mastered' from inferior VHS tapes of films to which they have no legal rights to (for example, "Drum" is currently in the MGM library). Thus the bottom-of-the-barrel picture quality of their discs. Note, too, their laughably bad screen capture cover art. Puh-leaze! Could you be any more lame? Amazon should be ashamed for even carrying garbage like this, and the legitimate rights owners for the movies that Blax Films rips off should sic their lawyers on them, hunt them down and sue them into the poorhouse!
Will be watched more than once
By AKM8166VKGNN on 2006-05-23
All though this book did not follow the book exactly, it still was pretty good. I didn't really like the character they had for Hammond Maxwell but I saw Mandingo first and liked that actor better. Ken Norton played a tremedous role as Drum and as Mede in Mandingo---hats off to him. Anyone interested in the Falconhurst Series this is a must see movie!!!
sound and picture
By A1TDJ04RHXM83U on 2008-11-10
The sound is very poor quality, as well as the picture. It was just too old to try to have a remake.
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