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Penitentiary
“There's only one way out, and 100 fools stand in the way!”
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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.
- Director
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Writers
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
- Release date
- 1 December 1979
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Cast
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
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