PENITENTIARY
He's too fast, two fisted, "TOO SWEET"!

View Trailer - Request Screener - Check Availabilities - Contact Us

SUMMARY:
Martel Gordone is thrown deep into the bowels of the prison system, where the only consistent truth is to kill or be killed. To show his strength and gain respect from the other inmates, Martel must distinguish himself as a boxer, taking on all corners to save his own skin and regain his pride as a human being.

STARRING: Gloria Delaney, Badja Djola, Carl Irwin, Leon Isaac Kennedy
DIRECTED BY: Jamaa Fanaka
ACTION, 99 minutes, 1979

DETAILED SYNOPSIS:
Jamaa Fanaka’s raw and violent indictment of prison life is a masterpiece of Urban Cinema and was the most successful independent film of 1979/80. The film tells the story of Martel Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy in his first starring role), 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 of 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 (Badja Djola—Mississippi Burning, The Serpent and the Rainbow), 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 that puts all previous boxing films to shame!

Flyer Front

(Click to View)

Flyer Back

(Click to View)