Penitentiary (1979)
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.
- Date of release
- 1979-12-01
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (28)
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Crime
- Director
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Collection
- Penitentiary Collection
Casting
- 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 — Lieutenant Arnsworth
- Gloria Delaney — Peaches
- Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White — Sweet Pea
- Badja Djola — 'Half Dead' Johnson
- Cepheus Jaxon — Poindexter
- Dwaine Fobbs — Lying Latney Winborn
- Ernest Wilson — Cheese
Interesting facts
Penitentiary is a 1979 American blaxploitation drama film written, produced and directed by Jamaa Fanaka, and starring Leon Isaac Kennedy as Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone, a man who deals with his wrongful imprisonment as a black youth. The film was released on November 21, 1979.
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