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Penitentiary

Call Number

  • DVD ACTION (EAS)

Edition

Special edition.

Performers

Leon Isaac Kennedy, Badja Djola, Thommy Pollard, Gloria Delaney, Hazel Spear, Donovan Womack.

Publication Information

Santa Monica, CA : Xenon Pictures, [2006]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: R.

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.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.

Special features: Original trailer ; commentary from writer/director Jamaa Fanaka.

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