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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.
Theatrical
Sep 4, 1987
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
The Cannon Group
Keywords
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
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Leon Isaac Kennedy
Too Sweet
A
Anthony Geary
Serenghetti
S
Steve Antin
Roscoe
R
Rick Zumwalt
Joshua
R
Raymond Kessler
Midnight Thud Jessup (as The Haiti Kid)
D
Danny Trejo
See Veer
J
Jim Bailey
Cleopatra
R
Ric Mancini
Warden
T
Ty Randolph
Sugar
R
Raye Hollitt
Female Boxer
B
Bert Williams
Tim Shoah
J
Jack Rader
Fred
G
George Payne
Jess
D
Drew Bundini Brown
Sugg
