Penitentiary

Dec 1, 1979

1h 39m

★ 5.3

There's only one way out, and 100 fools stand in the way!

Overview

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.

Genres

Action

Drama

Crime

Penitentiary Trailers

Cast

Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone

Leon Isaac Kennedy

Eugene T. Lawson

Thommy Pollard

Linda (as Hazel Spear)

Hazel Spears

Jesse Amos

Donovan Womack

Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson (as Floyd Chatman)

Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman

Lieutenant Arnsworth

Chuck Mitchell

Peaches

Gloria Delaney

Sweet Pea

Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White

'Half Dead' Johnson

Badja Djola

Poindexter

Cepheus Jaxon

Lying Latney Winborn

Dwaine Fobbs

Cheese

Ernest Wilson

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