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Film / 1979
Penitentiary
Directed by
Jamaa Fanaka
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.
The story
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.
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Penitentiary Collection
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Cast
Leon Isaac KennedyMartel 'Too Sweet' Gordone
Thommy PollardEugene T. Lawson
Hazel SpearsLinda (as Hazel Spear)
Donovan WomackJesse Amos
Floyd 'Wildcat' ChatmanHezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson (as Floyd Chatman)
Chuck MitchellLieutenant Arnsworth
Gloria DelaneyPeaches
Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' WhiteSweet Pea
Badja Djola'Half Dead' Johnson
Cepheus JaxonPoindexter
Dwaine FobbsLying Latney Winborn
Ernest WilsonCheese
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