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Penitentiary

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 ...

Director

Jamaa Fanaka

Year

Genre

crime, drama, sport

Box Office

N/A

Production

Xenon

Awards

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Sweet Pea

Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White

Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone

Leon Isaac Kennedy

Eugene T. Lawson

Thomas M. Pollard

Linda

Jesse Amos

Hezzikia 'Seldom Seen' Jackson

Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman

Peaches

'Half Dead' Johnson

Lieutenant Arnsworth

Poindexter

Lying Latney Winborn

Cheese

Magilla Gorilla

Will Richardson

Nut #1

Elijah Mitchell

Mook

Nut #2

Darrell Keith Harris

Nut #3

'A' Block Night Guard

Tough Tony

Referee

Ellsworth Harrell

'Tough Tony' Manager

Cornelius Desha

Biker #1

Biker #2

Female Guard in Male Prison

'Rappin' Larry

Bill Phillips Murry

Counter Lady

Cook

Sam Cunningham

'A' Block Day Guard

Gay Boxing Spectator

2nd Girl in Restroom

Wolf

Thomas Earl Stiratt

2nd Male in Restroom

Rubin

Male Guard #1

Male Guard #2

Hassan Abdul-Ali

Male Guard #3

Marcus Gutierrez

Female Lieutenant

Female Guard #1

Female Guard #2

Female Guard #3

Cardella Di Milo

Female Guard #4

Beverly Wallace

Female Guard #5

Female Guard #6

Deloris Figueroa

Female Inmate #1

Female Inmate #2

Female Inmate #3

Brenda Joy Griffin

Female Inmate #4

Reneé Armanlin

Female Inmate #5

Female Inmate #6

Female Inmate #7

Female Inmate #8

Female Inmate #9

Male Inmate #1

Male Inmate

Male Inmate #2

Casey J. Littlejohn

Male Inmate #3

Edgardo Williams

Male Inmate #4

Tyrone S.B. Thompson

Male Inmate #5

Male Inmate #6

Roderic Williams

Male Inmate #7

Male Inmate #8

Male Inmate #9

Male Inmate #10

Male Inmate #11

Robert Wayne Cornelius

Male Inmate #12

Pretty Red

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'half Dead' Johnson Martel 'too Sweet' Gordone Linda Peaches Jesse Amos Lieutenant Arnsworth Eugene T. Lawson Sweet Pea Magilla Gorilla Pretty Red

'Cause if I can't have it all I don't any of it - Penitentiary

'Cause if I can't have it all I don't any of...

No bro just because you ugly don't mean you bad - Penitentiary

No bro just because you ugly don't mean you bad

Don't turn your bootie on me sucker. - Penitentiary

Don't turn your bootie on me sucker.

Break it, break this shit up. - Penitentiary

Break it, break this shit up.

Come here mama. - Penitentiary

Come here mama.

Jesse man take these things off - Penitentiary

Jesse man take these things off

You want a fight I'll take him. - Penitentiary

You want a fight I'll take him.

Hey Linda? - Penitentiary

You know who I am - Penitentiary

You know who I am

Too Sweet we got to live now - Penitentiary

Too Sweet we got to live now

But nothing I could do. - Penitentiary

But nothing I could do.

And you just let them set me up, - Penitentiary

And you just let them set me up,

Oh please forgive me I'm sorry. - Penitentiary

Oh please forgive me I'm sorry.

This is Linda. - Penitentiary

Come on that little chippy out there in the trailer - Penitentiary

Come on that little chippy out there in the trailer

Hey Carlos? - Penitentiary

Hey Too Sweet man how
was that broad? - Penitentiary

Hey Too Sweet man how was that broad?

I told you man this ain't me man
this ain't me at all. - Penitentiary

I told you man this ain't me man this ain't me at ...

Too Sweet, Too Sweet, Too Sweet,
come on. - Penitentiary

Too Sweet, Too Sweet, Too Sweet, come on.

Let it go, you don't need that. - Penitentiary

Let it go, you don't need that.

Too Sweet. - Penitentiary

I'm sorry brother man. - Penitentiary

I'm sorry brother man.

Too Sweet I know what
you're thinking. - Penitentiary

Too Sweet I know what you're thinking.

I'm gonna kill you. - Penitentiary

I'm gonna kill you.

He's 50 pounds heavier than you so
stay away from him. - Penitentiary

He's 50 pounds heavier than you so stay away from him.

Man looks
like Big Jesse - Penitentiary

Man looks like Big Jesse

Nah Seldom, this is
where you dig man. - Penitentiary

Nah Seldom, this is where you dig man.

There's only one thing wrong Seldom. - Penitentiary

There's only one thing wrong Seldom.

You got to at least try. - Penitentiary

You got to at least try.

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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 ...

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Director: Jamaa Fanaka

Writer: Jamaa Fanaka

Production: Xenon

Genre: crime, drama, sport

Year: 1979

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 5.6

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 01 Dec 1979

Awards: N/A

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