Penitentiary

Penitentiary

99 mins | Drama, Crime, Action | Dec. 1, 1979

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.

Penitentiary

99 mins | Drama, Crime, Action | Dec. 1, 1979

Penitentiary
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.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers
Original title Penitentiary
Directors Jamaa Fanaka
Writers Jamaa Fanaka

Cast

Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White

as Sweet Pea

Leon Isaac Kennedy

as Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone

Thommy Pollard

as Eugene T. Lawson

Hazel Spears

as Linda (as Hazel Spear)

Donovan Womack

as Jesse Amos

Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman

as Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson (as Floyd Chatman)

Gloria Delaney

as Peaches

Badja Djola

as 'Half Dead' Johnson

Chuck Mitchell

as Lieutenant Arnsworth

Cepheus Jaxon

as Poindexter

Dwaine Fobbs

as Lying Latney Winborn

Ernest Wilson

as Cheese

Will Richardson

as Magilla Gorilla

Elijah Mitchell

as Nut #1

Tony Andrea

as Mook