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Synopsis
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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Credits
- Producer
- Arnold Shapiro
- Director
- Arnold Shapiro
- Screenplay
- Arnold Shapiro
- Director of Photography
- William Moffitt
- Country
- United States
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