Penitentiary
5.7
“There's only one way out, and 100 fools stand in the way!”
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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3 films
Cast
15 people
Leon Isaac Kennedy
Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone
Known for
Lone Wolf McQuade
Thommy Pollard
Eugene T. Lawson
No other roles listed
Hazel Spears
Linda (as Hazel Spear)
No other roles listed
Donovan Womack
Jesse Amos
Also in
The Brady Brides
Secret Agent 00 Soul
Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman
Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson (as Floyd Chatman)
No other roles listed
Chuck Mitchell
Lieutenant Arnsworth
Known for
Porky's
Better Off Dead...
Gloria Delaney
Peaches
Known for
Red Heat
The Human Tornado
Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White
Sweet Pea
Badja Djola
'Half Dead' Johnson
Known for
Mississippi Burning
The Hurricane
Cepheus Jaxon
Poindexter
Dwaine Fobbs
Lying Latney Winborn
No other roles listed
Ernest Wilson
Cheese
Also in
The Drifter
Safari
Jamaa Fanaka Director · William Anderson Composer Marty Ollstein Cinematographer
Budget $100K · United States release December 1, 1979 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$100,000
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 1, 1979
Theatrical
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