Penitentiary (1979)

Crime, Drama, General Film, Sports

Director: Jamaa Fanaka

Writer(s): Jamaa Fanaka

Starring: Wilbur ‘Hi-Fi’ White, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Thomas M. Pollard, Hazel Spears, Donovan Womack, Floyd ‘Wildcat’ Chatman, Gloria Delaney, Badja Djola, Chuck Mitchell, Cepheus Jaxon, Dwaine Fobbs, Ernest Wilson, Will Richardson, Elijah Mitchell, Tony Andrea, Darrell Keith Harris, Lonnie Kirtz, Ray Wolfe, Charles Young, Ellsworth Harrell, Cornelius Desha, Michael Melvin, Steve Eddy, Irene Stokes, Bill Phillips Murr, Teri Hayden, Herman Cole, Carl Irwin, Irving Parham, Warren Bryant, Lorrie Marlow, Thomas Earl Stiratt, Jamaa Fanaka, Joaquin Leal, David Carter, Hassan Abdul-Ali, Marcus Gutierrez, Zee Howard, Gwynn Pineda, Ann Hutcherson, Cardella Di Milo, Beverly Wallace, Onia Fenee, Deloris Figueroa, Zeola Gaye, Jackie Shaw, Brenda Joy Griffin, Reneé Armanlin, Sarah Jaxon, Barbara Torres, Irene Terrell, Lisa Visco, Shelli Hughes, Tony Rapisarda, Tony Rapisarda, Casey J. Littlejohn, Edgardo Williams, Tyrone S.B. Thompson, Sam Olden, Roderic Williams, Dominic Giusto, William Bey, Shawn Davis, Johnny Jones, Robert Wayne Cornelius, Quitman Gates, Ian Foxx

Synopsis: A man wrongly convicted of murder enters the prison boxing tournament.

Release Date: April 4, 1980 (USA) | Length: 99 min | Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport | Certificate: R

Note: I can’t identify a lot of the cast because their characters have generic names like “Male Guard #1”. IMDB has the official release date as some time in December of 1979. Above is the NYC/US release date.