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Bookmark this pageSlavers (1977)
Director: Jürgen Goslar
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From Time Out Film Guide
Darkest Africa, 1884: cynical, grizzled trader (Howard), beautiful white woman (Ekland), self-aggrandising husband (Goslar), illicit lover (Ely), plus an endless supply of disposable natives and evil, foul-mouthed whites. The incoherent narrative sometimes tries to rectify itself with lumpen expository dialogue, and - no doubt in the name of historical accuracy - it's nasty to watch, unless you relish brandings, rape, cruelty to animals, spurting arteries, vultures working over dead natives, baby trampling, assorted deaths, and repeated shots of ankles chafed to the bone by iron anklets during the great slave trek. Black exploitation at its worst.Author: JS
Cast & crew
Director: Jürgen Goslar
Producer: Jürgen Goslar
Cast: Trevor Howard, Ron Ely, Britt Ekland, Jürgen Goslar, Ray Milland, Ken Gampu, Cameron Mitchell full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 102 mins
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