Brenda Sykes

James Garner and Lou Gossett, Jr. star in this comedy as Quincy and Drew, a pair of con men--one black, the other white--who travel the American West.

Federal agent Jones tries to rescue her framed boyfriend from a drug-queen pervert known as Mommy.

Based on the novel by Kyle Onstott, Mandingo takes the audience beyond the sentimentalized South of other films with uncompromising honesty and realism to show the true brutalizing nature of slavery, which made victims of both owner and slave.