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Overview

User Rating:
5.5/10   213 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Jamaa Fanaka (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
December 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
All that stands between him and freedom is the ring. more
NewsDesk:
Penitentiary Comes To UK DVD 09 March 2009
 (From LateFilmFull. 11 February 2009, 7:10 AM, PST)

User Reviews:
A clinker about the clink. more (8 total)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Leon Isaac Kennedy ... Martel 'Too Sweet' Gordone
Thommy Pollard ... Eugene T. Lawson
Hazel Spears ... Linda (as Hazel Spear)
Donovan Womack ... Jesse Amos
Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman ... Hezzikia 'Seldon Seen' Jackson (as Floyd Chatman)
Gloria Delaney ... Peaches
Ian Foxx ... Pretty Red
Badja Djola ... 'Half Dead' Johnson
Chuck Mitchell ... Lieutenant Arnsworth
Cepheus Jaxon ... Poindexter
Dwaine Fobbs ... Lying Latney Winborn
Ernest Wilson ... Cheese
Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White ... Sweet Pea
Will Richardson ... Magilla Gorilla
Elijah Mitchell ... Nut #1
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Jamaa Fanaka's Penitentiary (USA) (long title)
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Runtime:
99 min
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Language:
Color:
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Certification:
Australia:MA (2007) | UK:18 | UK:15 (DVD re-rating) | UK:15 (re-rating) (2009) | Norway:18 | USA:R

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The fight in the jail cell between Badja Djola and Leon Isaac Kennedy took three days to film. Neither Djola nor Kennedy used stunt doubles for this brutal and lengthy fight set piece. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Justine: A Matter of Innocence (1980) more
Soundtrack:
Kissy Face more

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2 out of 12 people found the following review useful.
A clinker about the clink., 17 November 2000

I saw this film with a pal over twenty years ago at the theater, first-run. I sat there amazed at how wincingly terrible it was from start to finish. After about forty-five minutes my friend (who was a drama student at the time) wanted desperately to leave the theater. I refused, explaining that in the years to come we would both look back at this film as a standard for cinema awfulness. I was right.

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