Penitentiary (1979)
1979 film by Jamaa Fanaka
- Released
- 21 November 1979
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Boxing film
- Director
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Screenplay
- Jamaa Fanaka
- Starring
- Leon Isaac Kennedy, Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White, Thomas M. Pollard, Gloria Delaney
- Running time
- 99 minutes
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 his wrongful imprisonment as a black youth. The film was released on November 21, 1979.
More films directed by Jamaa Fanaka
- Penitentiary II 1982
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q7163044 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.