TMDb Rating
5.1/10
27 verified votes
Penitentiary (1979)
ActionDramaCrime
99 min
"There's only one way out, and 100 fools stand in the way!"
Plot Summary
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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Keywords to include
ActionDramaCrimeJamaa FanakaLeon Isaac KennedyThommy Pollard 1979
Director
Jamaa Fanaka
Top Cast
Leon Isaac KennedyThommy Pollard Hazel Spears Donovan Womack Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman
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