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Penitentiary

Country: USA, Language: English, 99 mins

  • Director: Jamaa Fanaka
  • Writer: Jamaa Fanaka
  • Producer: Alicia Dhanifu; Robert Edelen

CGiii Comment

The first in the 'trilogy'....

Blaxploitation prison drama - the usual things with nothing inventive or original.


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The(ir) Blurb...

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 & Characters

Leon Isaac Kennedy as Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone;
Thommy Pollard as Eugene T. Lawson;
Hazel Spears as Linda;
Donovan Womack as Jesse Amos;
Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman as Hezzikia 'Seldon Seen' Jackson;
Gloria Delaney as Peaches;
Ian Foxx as Pretty Red;
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;
Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White as Sweet Pea;
Will Richardson as Magilla Gorilla;
Elijah Mitchell as Nut #1