Penitentiary

Name: Penitentiary
Director: Jamaa Fanaka
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Released: 1979-12-01
Duration: 1 h 39 min
Rating: 5.1
Cast: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Thommy Pollard, Hazel Spears, Donovan Womack, Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman

Directed by Jamaa Fanaka

Action

Drama

Crime

19791h 39m5.1

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.