Penitentiary
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.
Crew and Cast
Jamaa FanakaDirector
Leon Isaac KennedyMartel 'Too Sweet' GordoneThommy 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 MitchellLieutenant Arnsworth
Gloria DelaneyPeachesWilbur 'Hi-Fi' WhiteSweet Pea
Badja Djola'Half Dead' JohnsonCepheus 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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Info
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 1 December 1979
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Rating
- R
- TMDB score
- 5.3 / 10 (28 votes)
Production
- Director
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Writers
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Countries
- United States of America
Box Office
- Collection
- Penitentiary Collection
Languages
- Original
- English
- Spoken
- English