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1.9/10   232 votes
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Jamaa Fanaka (writer)
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Release Date:
4 September 1987 (USA) more
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A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud. | add synopsis
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a Jamaa Fanaka classic! more (9 total)

Cast

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Leon Isaac Kennedy ... Too Sweet
Anthony Geary ... Serenghetti

Steve Antin ... Roscoe
Ric Mancini ... Warden
Marie Burrell Fanaka ... Chelsea Remington
Raymond Kessler ... Midnight Thud Jessup (as The Haiti Kid)
Rick Zumwalt ... Joshua

Magic Schwarz ... Hugo

Jim Bailey ... Cleopatra
Big Bull Bates ... Simp
Big Yank ... Rock
Bert Williams ... Tim Shosh
Mark Kemble ... Rufus
Jack Rader ... Fred
Madison Campudoni ... El Cid
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UK:90 min (cut version) | USA:91 min
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Joshua: You can flush your manhood down the toilet. more
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Follows Penitentiary (1979) more

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
a Jamaa Fanaka classic!, 6 May 2005
8/10
Author: Judexdot1 (judexdot1@yahoo.com) from Minneapolis MN USA

After beginning in a very sort of "afro-Rocky" way, unsung berserk exploitation director, Jamaa Fanaka, return to his blaxploitation roots with this one. Tony Geary, former "General Hospital" star, returns to his roots as well, with his strangest film since he got raunchy with future "Ilsa" Dyanne Thorne, in "Blood Sabbath" (1972). Leon Isaac Kennedy returns as "Too Sweet", and ends up boxing, in prison, again. But this time he meets an eventually helpful, mystical dwarf,"The Midnight Thud", who teaches him Kung Fu when not smoking crack. Geary gets all strange as the nasty "Serengeti", and seems to be channeling Chris Walken throughout. Fanaka knocks this out of our normal dimension, but doesn't quite equal some of his other, less profitable work, like "Welcome Home Brother Charles" (aka "Soul Vengeance"), where other mystical midgets also assist the "hero".

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