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Penitentiary (1979 Film)
''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. Plot Martel Gordone had been wandering aimlessly through the desert when he is finally picked up by an African-American woman driving a van dubbed the "Shaggin’ Wagon". The woman, Linda, who picks him up is actually a prostitute on her way to some clients. On the way to the diner where the two parties are to meet, Linda and Gordone (nicknamed "Too Sweet" because of his uncontrollable addiction to Mr. Goodbar candy bars) spark an interest in each other, but Linda decides to wait until after she has finished with her clients, “You know, honey, it’s got to be business before pleasure, and I’m sure you’re a real pleasure.”Kennedy, Isaac, Dir. ''Penitentiary.'' Dir. Jamaa Fanaka." Perf. Isaac , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaa Fanaka
Jamaa Fanaka (born Walter Gordon; September 6, 1942 – April 1, 2012) was an American filmmaker. He is best known for his 1979 film, ''Penitentiary'', and was one of the leading directors of the L.A. Rebellion film movement. Early life and education Fanaka was born Walter Gordon to Robert L. and Beatrice Gordon in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1971, Fanaka was accepted into the film school at UCLA. His first film, ''A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan'', was a morality tale shot in 8mm film about a heroin addict. The film stars Fanaka (credited as Walt Gordon) in the title role. It is the only narrative short he ever made. Jan-Christopher Horak of the UCLA Film Archives, when comparing the movie with the 1972 blaxploitation film, '' Super Fly'', released the same year, observed, "unlike Priest's elegant cocaine consumption in ''Super Fly'', Willie's arm gushes blood as he injects heroin." Later, he changed his name to Jamaa Fanaka. Ntongela Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penitentiary II
''Penitentiary II'' is a 1982 American Blaxploitation drama film directed by Jamaa Fanaka. Released on April 2, 1982, the film is the sequel to 1979's ''Penitentiary''. It was followed by another sequel, ''Penitentiary III'', which was released in August 1987. Plot Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone earned his parole from jail by winning a prison boxing tournament. All Too Sweet wants to do is start a peaceful life, but a condition of his release is that he work for a boxing promoter. Too Sweet has no interest in boxing and wants to live with his sister and her husband who support his desire to start over. However, when an old enemy from prison, Half Dead, escapes and kills his girlfriend, Too Sweet changes his plans and returns to the ring. Cast * Leon Isaac Kennedy as Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone * Eugenia Wright as Clarisse * Glynn Turman as Charles Johnson * Mr. T as Himself * Archie Moore as Himself * Ernie Hudson as "Half-Dead" Johnson * Peggy Blow as Ellen Johnson * Sephton Moody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Set In Prison
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaxploitation Films
Blaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The term, a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation", was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, the president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch. He claimed the genre was "proliferating offenses" to the black community in its perpetuation of stereotypical characters often involved in crime. The genre does rank among the first after the race films in the 1940s and 1960s in which black characters and communities are the protagonists and subjects of film and television, rather than sidekicks, antagonists or victims of brutality. The genre's inception coincides with the rethinking of race relations in the 1970s. Blaxploitation films were originally aimed at an urban African-American audience but the genre's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines. Hollywood realized the potential profit of expanding the audiences of blaxp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s English-language Films
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American Boxing Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Sports Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Films
The year 1979 in film involved many significant events. Highest-grossing films United States and Canada The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows: International Major events * March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, '' Take Down''. * March 5 – Production begins on ''The Empire Strikes Back''. * March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures. * May 25 – ''Alien'', a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released. * May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a stroke. * May 31 – ''The Muppet Movie'', Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature-length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom. * June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer. * June 29 – '' Moonraker'', the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cannon Group, Inc
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Penitentiary III
''Penitentiary III'' is a 1987 American crime drama film written and directed by Jamaa Fanaka. It is the sequel to the 1982 film ''Penitentiary II''. The film stars Leon Isaac Kennedy, Anthony Geary, Steve Antin, Ric Mancini, Marie Burrell Fanaka and Raymond Kessler. The film was released on September 4, 1987, by Cannon Film Distributors. A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud. Cast * Leon Isaac Kennedy as Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone * Anthony Geary as Serenghetti * Steve Antin as Roscoe * Ric Mancini as The Warden * Marie Burrell Fanaka as Chelsea Remington * Raymond Kessler as "Midnight Thud" Jessup * Rick Zumwalt as Joshua * Magic Schwarz as Hugo * Jim Bailey as Cleopatra * "Big Bull" Bates as "Simp" * "Big Yank" as "Rock" * Bert Williams as Tim Shoah * Mark Kemble as Rufus * Jack Rader as Fred * Madison Campudoni as "El Cid" * George Payne as Jess / ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Hudson
Earnest Lee Hudson (born December 17, 1945) is an American actor. His roles include Winston Zeddemore in the ''Ghostbusters'' film series, Sergeant Darryl Albrecht in ''The Crow'' (1994), and Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's '' Oz'' (1997–2003). Hudson has also acted in the films ''Leviathan'' (1989), '' The Hand That Rocks the Cradle'' (1992), ''Airheads'' (1994), '' The Basketball Diaries'' (1995), '' Congo'' (1995), '' Miss Congeniality'' (2000), and as Principal Turner in ''The Ron Clark Story'' (2006). Hudson had appeared in the television shows '' St. Elsewhere'' (1984), ''The Last Precinct'' (1986), '' 10-8: Officers on Duty'' (2003–2004), ''Desperate Housewives'' (2006–2007), ''The Secret Life of the American Teenager'' (2008–2013), ''Law & Order'' (2009–2010), the voice of Agent Bill Fowler in '' Transformers: Prime'' (2010–2013), ''Franklin & Bash'' (2012–2014), ''Grace and Frankie'' (2015–2020), and '' L.A.'s Finest'' (2019–2020). He had a cameo as Patty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glynn Turman
Glynn Russell Turman (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. Turman is known for his roles as Lew Miles on the prime-time soap opera '' Peyton Place'' (1968–1969), high school student Leroy "Preach" Jackson in the 1975 coming-of-age film ''Cooley High'', math professor and retired Army colonel Bradford Taylor on the NBC sitcom ''A Different World'' (1988–1993), and Baltimore mayor Clarence Royce on the HBO drama series ''The Wire''. He also portrayed Jeremiah Kaan on the Showtime series ''House of Lies'' and Doctor Senator in the fourth season of the FX black comedy crime drama series '' Fargo''. Early life Turman was born in New York City. According to a DNA analysis, Turman shares maternal ancestry with the Edo people of Nigeria. Turman studied at High School of Performing Arts located in the Manhattan section of New York City, graduating in 1965. Career Turman had his first prominent acting role at the age of 12 as Travis Younger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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