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5.4 / 10 1h 39min

Action Drama Crime

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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Review by SparklingSnail

Rowdy prison film offers more strange attitude than drama.

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Review by user9256i6xlra0

An odd mix of the real and the ridiculous

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Review by ThunderousToucan

The Penitentiary Trilogy: Penitentiary

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Review by user7956csq0b1p

A cool blaxploitation prison flick

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Review by user5897nwy7pmp

I cannot give this Black-cult classic a standard review?

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Review by user8528iqkf0ip

A long lost blacksploitation Gem!

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Review by DaringDolphin

Passionate and very intense cinema experience

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Review by user5887b0pchqm

"If you don't handle the fools, they handle you."

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Review by user140zdgq6ty2

Blaxploitation worth 100 lame contemp. Hollywood "action" films!

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Review by NeonNinja

Great, underrated prison/boxing flick

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Review by PolarPig

Most Realistic Prison Film...ever

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