Scared Straight! (1978)
It took going behind bars to keep them out.
The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
- Date of release
- 1978-11-02
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Arnold Shapiro
- Collection
- Scared Straight Collection
Casting
- Peter Falk — Narration (voice)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
Scared Straight! is a 1978 American documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. Narrated by actor Peter Falk – known for playing a police detective on the TV drama Columbo – the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts. Filmed at Rahway State Prison, a group of inmates known as the "lifers" berate, scream at, and terrify the young offenders in an attempt to "scare them straight", so that those teenagers will avoid prison life.
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