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Penitentiary

Penitentiary
★ 5.3/10•1979•1h 39m•R•Action•Drama•Crime

There's only one way out, and 100 fools stand in the way!

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.

Jamaa Fanaka · Director

Jamaa Fanaka · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 39m
LanguageEN
Release DateDec 1, 1979

Actors

Leon Isaac Kennedy

Leon Isaac Kennedy

Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone

Thommy Pollard

Eugene T. Lawson

Hazel Spears

Linda (as Hazel Spear)

Donovan Womack

Jesse Amos

Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman

Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson (as Floyd Chatman)

Chuck Mitchell

Chuck Mitchell

Lieutenant Arnsworth

Gloria Delaney

Gloria Delaney

Peaches

Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White

Sweet Pea

Badja Djola

Badja Djola

'Half Dead' Johnson

Cepheus Jaxon

Poindexter

Dwaine Fobbs

Lying Latney Winborn

Ernest Wilson

Cheese

Will Richardson

Magilla Gorilla

Elijah Mitchell

Nut #1

Tony Andrea

Mook

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