Penitentiary (1979)
Penitentiary () - Cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. 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. Penitentiary (1979)
Penitentiary is a American blaxploitation drama film written, produced and directed by Jamaa Fanaka, and starring Leon Isaac Kennedy as Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone, a man who deals with his wrongful imprisonment as a black youth. Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White. Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman. Penitentiary (1980)
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. Penitentiary is a American blaxploitation drama film written, produced, and directed by Jamaa Fanaka, and starring Leon Isaac Kennedy as Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone, a man who deals with the wrongful imprisonment of a black youth. The film was released on November 21, Penitentiary (1979) Full Cast & Crew
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Penitentiary (1979)
Penitentiary: Directed by Jamaa Fanaka. With Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Thomas M. Pollard, Hazel Spears. A hitchhiker gets arrested after a biker dies in a fight over a prostitute. In prison, he joins the boxing team to gain dominance and secure early parole from the toughest gang. .
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By the end of the s, the racial demographic of the US prison system found black inmates outnumbering Caucasians but prison movies continued to center around white inmates (Tom Gries' excellent made-for-TV movie The Glass House) or surround their black star with a supporting cast comprised for the most part of white actors (Buzz Kulik's. .
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Penitentiary
Cast and crew of «Penitentiary» (). Roles and the main characters. Wilbur «Hi-Fi» White, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Thomas M. Pollard. .