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About
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.
Theatrical
Apr 2, 1982
Box Office
$3.0M
Budget
$365K
Return
8.2x
DVD / Blu-ray
Feb 5, 2002
Director
Producer
Studio
Bob-Bea Productions, Ideal Films, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Penitentiary Collection
Penitentiary is a 1979 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 wrong...
Cast
Full credits →L
Leon Isaac Kennedy
Too Sweet
G
Glynn Turman
Charles Johnson
E
Ernie Hudson
Half Dead
M
Mr. T
Himself
P
Peggy Blow
Ellen
D
Donovan Womack
Jesse 'The Bull' Amos
S
Stan Kamber
Sam
E
Ebony Wright
Sugar
E
Eugenia Wright
Clarisse
R
Ren Woods
Nikki
D
Dennis Lipscomb
Announcer
G
Gerald Berns
Beau Flynn - Lt. Heavywt. World Champ
T
Tony Cox
Midget
R
Rudy Ray Moore
Husband
A
Archie Moore
Himself
H
Hawthorne James
Referee
