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Drum

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A slaver (Warren Oates) buys Drum (Ken Norton), a bordello queen's (Silvia Pinal) son, in 1860s New Orleans.

Critics Reviews

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Verina Glaessner Time Out 01/26/2006
Much of the blame rests with the chaotic and clumsy script fashioned from Kyle Onstott's potboiling bestseller. Go to Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times 05/09/2005
There's more hot air than steam in the overwrought melodrama of Drum. Go to Full Review Steve Warren The Barb (Atlanta) 05/09/2023
You can't possibly take this one seriously, but you might enjoy it. Go to Full Review Richard Corliss New Times (magazine) 06/22/2022
[Every character] is drawn in caricatures broad enough to do a pay-toilet artist proud. Go to Full Review Jacoba Atlas Los Angeles Free Press 10/30/2019
A hopelessly inept, foul interpretation of history and human emotions that should be ignored at all costs. Go to Full Review Fernando Trueba El Pais (Spain) 07/26/2019
The movie is nothing more than a soap opera set in New Orleans. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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12/24/2021 Its your classic seventies exploitation movie, combined with a salacious, soft porn plantation drama. All the sordid, sleazy, tantalizing ingredients are present for outrage and some great non P.C. entertainment. See more delysid d 11/27/2017 drum is the son of mandingo, he gets stuck in a sex farm See more 04/27/2017 This pseudo-sequel to Mandingo isn't nearly as disturbing and has a better plot. Warren Oates is very good as the plantation owner. Plus, Yaphet Kotto is added to help with acting (since Ken Norton is a boxer turned Actor). If you liked Mandingo then you should watch Drum. See more 08/14/2016 Follow up to MANDINGO is respectable in its own right with slave Norton sold to plantation owner Warren Oates and leading a revolt. Good cast makes up for Norton's deficiencies in the lead. See more 01/03/2013 Django Unchained is totally based off this film. Drum is a pretty damn good flick! This is so UNDERRATED!!!!! See more 11/13/2012 82% "I love you Claudia, but maybe niggers shouldn't love."-Drum (Ken Norton) I'll bet, two bits, that Tarantino loves this flick. "Blind is the color of freedom."-Blaise (Yaphet Kotto) See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Steve Carver

Director

Warren Oates

Hammond Maxwell

Ken Norton

Drum

Silvia Pinal

Actor

Isela Vega

Marianna

Paula Kelly

Rachel

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Movie Info

Synopsis A slaver (Warren Oates) buys Drum (Ken Norton), a bordello queen's (Silvia Pinal) son, in 1860s New Orleans.
Director
Steve Carver
Producer
Ralph Serpe
Screenwriter
Norman Wexler
Production Co
Dino De Laurentiis Company
Rating
R
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 30, 1976, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 19, 2017
Runtime
1h 40m