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   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.

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   Overview. 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 the wrongful imprisonment of a black youth. The film was released on November 21, 1979.

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   Penitentiary (1979) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

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6. www.ranker.com › list › best-prison-movies-tv-showsThe 40+ Best Prison Movies & TV Shows, Ranked By Votes

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   • The Shawshank Redemption. 54 votes. The Shawshank Redemption, a captivating drama directed by Frank Darabont, hinges on the resilience of the human spirit.
   • The Green Mile. 39 votes. In the poignant drama The Green Mile, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) supervises death row in a 1930s Southern prison. Among the inmates, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a gentle giant with mysterious abilities, arrives for a ghastly crime he didn't commit.
   • Escape from Alcatraz. 21 votes. Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of his life sentence at Alcatraz -- America's most infamously brutal and inescapable maximum security prison.
   • Sleepers. 30 votes. In Sleepers, a gripping drama of retribution and justice, four young boys - Shakes (Jason Patric), Michael (Brad Pitt), Tommy (Billy Crudup), and John (Ron Eldard) - find their lives irrevocably changed after being sentenced to a brutal reform school.

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   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...

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   • Director: Jamaa Fanaka

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   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.

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   • The genre hasn't neglected the small screen, with TV shows like the recent addition from Netflix, Orange is the New Black, which explores the life of a woman who is imprisoned for crimes she committed at the very edge of the statue of limitations. Then you have the aptly named Prison Break, among plenty of other great prison shows.

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