Penitentiary (1979)
There's only one way out, and 100 fools stand in the way!
99 min
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.
- Release date
- November 21, 1979
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Leon Isaac Kennedy as Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone
- Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White as Sweet Pea
- Thomas M. Pollard as Eugene T. Lawson
- Hazel Spears as Linda
- Donovan Womack as Jesse Amos
- Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman as Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson
- Gloria Delaney as Peaches
- Badja Djola as 'Half Dead' Johnson
- Chuck Mitchell as Lieutenant Arnsworth
- Cepheus Jaxon as Poindexter
Crew
- Jamaa Fanaka · Director
- Jamaa Fanaka · Writer
- Jamaa Fanaka · Producer
- William Anderson · Composer
- Andre Douglas · Composer
- Frankie Gaye · Composer
- Marty Ollstein · Cinematographer
- Betsy Blankett Milicevic · Editor