Penitentiary

Name: Penitentiary
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Released: 1979-12-01
Rating: 3.12
Cast: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Chuck Mitchell, Gloria Delaney, Badja Djola

There's only one way out, and 100 fools stand in the way!

Summary

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 parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.

Details

Release Date: December 1, 1979

Runtime: 99 minutes

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Original Language: EN

Rating: ⭐ 5.3/10 (26 votes)

Penitentiary Collection

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 parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.
Penitentiary II
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.
Penitentiary III
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.