Penitentiary

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Penitentiary

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

1979

1h 39m

5.3(26 votes)

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Drama

Crime

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.

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Cast & Crew

15 members

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Leon Isaac Kennedy

Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone

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Thommy Pollard

Eugene T. Lawson

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Hazel Spears

Linda (as Hazel Spear)

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Donovan Womack

Jesse Amos

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Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman

Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson (as Floyd Chatman)

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Chuck Mitchell

Lieutenant Arnsworth

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Gloria Delaney

Peaches

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Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White

Sweet Pea

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Badja Djola

'Half Dead' Johnson

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Cepheus Jaxon

Poindexter

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Dwaine Fobbs

Lying Latney Winborn

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Ernest Wilson

Cheese

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Will Richardson

Magilla Gorilla

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Elijah Mitchell

Nut #1

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Tony Andrea

Mook

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