Sentences with phrase «plantation owner becomes»

When a wealthy plantation owner becomes obsessed with a beautiful but unattainable woman, he strikes a devil's bargain with a sinister voodoo master!

Not exact matches

[8] Lawyer, representative to the General Assembly from Baton Rouge, and eventual Judge Daniel Avery, who was also joint owner of the Petit Anse Island sugar plantation, and Deer Range sugar plantation owner Maunsel White, became colleagues.

Six months later (as we enter the middle third of the movie), after the duo have become bounty hunting partners, the pair finally set off in search of their main goal — rescuing Djagno's wife Broomhilda, a slaved played by Kerry Washington who has been sold to a nasty Mandingo baron and plantation owner Calvin Candie (played with delicious relish by Leonardo DiCaprio).

It's a pretty safe bet to assume that only Quentin Tarantino could convince a studio to release a film set in the slave - owning South that follows a freed slave who, under the guidance of a German bounty hunter, becomes a deadly assassin hellbent on rescuing his wife from an evil plantation owner.

Having become the Vince and Jules of pre-Civil War badlands, Schultz and Django set out to recover Big D's wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from the plantation where they meet their deadly doubles: sadistic owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his feverishly loyal man - servant Stephen (Samuel L Jackson).

Played with wide - eyed determination and desperation by an excellent Chiwetel Ejiofor, Solomon is a free man who is tricked by a couple of young shysters into losing his free papers and becoming a slave, where he remains for more than a decade under the mastery of two different plantation owners — the benevolent William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) and emasculated, tyrannical Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender).

One book by a local author, «The Suicide Club» (huge gambling in Matara), Herman Gunaratne, owner of an Ahangama tea plantation with great tours very close by, takes readers on a journey through the British plantation Raj during its heyday and what has become of it all in these post-colonial times... interesting read...!