Penitentiary
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Penitentiary
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The work Penitentiary represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
- Label
- Penitentiary
- Statement of responsibility
- Jamaa Fanaka Productions ; produced, written and directed by Jamaa Fanaka
- Title variation
- Jamaa Fanaka's penitentiary
- Subject
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- African Americans
- African Americans -- Drama
- Blaxploitation films
- Blaxploitation films
- Boxers (Sports)
- Boxers (Sports) -- Drama
- Boxing
- Boxing -- Drama
- Drama
- Feature films
- Feature films
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Fiction films
- Male prisoners
- Male prisoners -- Drama
- Prison -- Feature
- Prison films
- Prison films
- Prison gangs
- Prison gangs -- Drama
- Prisoners -- Drama
- Prisons
- Prisons -- Drama
- Sports -- Feature
- Sports films
- Sports films
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Martel Gordone is a hitch-hiker who gets into a fight with a pair of bikers over a prostitute. One of the bikers dies and Martel finds himself in prison with the moniker "Too Sweet" because of his love for candy bars. Soon he is a hardened but pragmatic inmate who joins the prison boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole. But standing in his path is Half Dead Johnson, a member of the prison's most violent gang. Half Dead's sadistic cruelty and Too Sweet's raw determination culminate in a brutal and shocking climax
- Cataloging source
- CLE
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- Director of photography, Marty Ollstein ; editor, Betsy Blankett ; music, Frankie Gaye, William Anderson and Andre Douglas
- Dewey number
- 791.43/72
- Intended audience
- MPAA rating: R
- PerformerNote
- Leon Isaac Kennedy, Thommy Pollard, Badja Djola, Gloria Delaney, Hazel Spear, Donovan Womack
- Runtime
- 99
- Target audience
- adult
- Technique
- live action
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