Scared Straight!

Scared Straight! (1978)

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.

Fecha de estreno
1978-11-02
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (14)
Duración
52 min
Géneros
Documental
Director
Arnold Shapiro
Colección
Scared Straight Collection

Reparto

Curiosidades

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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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