Scared Straight! (1978)

Movie"It took going behind bars to keep them out."
Audience Score
74
Scared Straight!
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.
StarringPeter Falk
DirectorArnold Shapiro
WriterArnold Shapiro

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Arnold Shapiro
Production Companies:Golden West Television
Movie Tags:
preserved film

Scared Straight Collection

Juvenile delinquents are confronted by prisoners in order to scare them away from lives of crime.