Penitentiary (1979)
19791h 39mRActionDramaCrime
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.
Cast
Leon Isaac KennedyMartel 'Too Sweet' Gordone- TThommy Pollard Eugene T. Lawson
- HHazel Spears Linda (as Hazel Spear)
- DDonovan Womack Jesse Amos
- FFloyd 'Wildcat' Chatman Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson (as Floyd Chatman)
Chuck MitchellLieutenant Arnsworth
Gloria DelaneyPeaches- WWilbur 'Hi-Fi' WhiteSweet Pea
Badja Djola'Half Dead' Johnson- CCepheus Jaxon Poindexter
- DDwaine Fobbs Lying Latney Winborn
- EErnest Wilson Cheese
- WWill Richardson Magilla Gorilla
- EElijah Mitchell Nut #1
- TTony Andrea Mook
Crew
- Director
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Writers
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Producers
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Music
- William Anderson
- Cinematography
- Marty Ollstein
- Editing
- Betsy Blankett Milicevic
Details
- Released
- December 1, 1979
- Language
- English
- IMDb
- tt0079709