"It took going behind bars to keep them out." 02 November 1978 Factual 52 mins
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.
Watch the official Scared Straight! 1978 trailer in HD below or find more Scared Straight! videos on Vidimovie.
Peter Falk as Narration (voice)
Arnold Shapiro Executive Producer
United States 02 November 1978
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Scared Straight!:
The original scared straight from 1978 with follow ups on the youths and "lifers" 20 years later.
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Scared Straight 1999.
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Scared Straight! is a 1978 documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. Narrated by Peter Falk the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1978:
30 April 1978
Two policemen are suspected of excessive violence and causing two deaths. The investigation brings to light, little by little, the whole truth.
01 January 1978
A play about the issue of family relationships, real and calculated partnership.
24 March 1978
1978 Malayalam Film Starring Prem Nazir and Jayabarati about a boy and his dog.
01 October 1978
Video recording of a 1978 New York Shakespeare Festival performance. Directed for stage by Wilford Leach and videotaped by Jaime Caro.
05 October 1978
After getting into trouble, a mischievous young man is sent to train under a brutal, but slovenly old beggar, who teaches him the secret of the Drunken Fist.
11 October 1978
Carmen is a beautiful woman working in a business that is dedicated to smuggling. One day, Carmen fights and hurts to a smuggler woman, so a sergeant in the National Guard, José Navarro, stops detain her.
30 December 1978
A young man, very talented in the martial arts, appears in a troubled part of the country and rids it of brigandry with his fighting skills.
01 January 1978
Captures the work of the British Rail Parcel Service, illustrating the story of five different consignments over a twenty-four hour period.
18 February 1978
This rural documentary features poet Jin Makabe. Thoughts about agriculture, memories, landscapes.
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