Quadroon

Quadroon

NOW!...the shocking truth about the passion slaves of 1835 New Orleans

R 1971 · 90 min · ★ 5.2 · Drama

A story of love, lust, violence and murder on a sadistic southern plantation during the slave era.

Directed by Jack Weis · Written by R.B. McGowen Jr.

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Cast

Kathrine McKee Coral
Tim Kincaid Caleb
Robert Priest Antoine
Madelyn Sanders Celeste
George Lupo Dupree
Marinda French Aunt Nancy
Bill McGhee Jacques
David Snow Felix
Butch Benit Mayreau the Fencing Master (as D.J. Benit)
Grover Daniels
Bill Holliday
Donald Pearce

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