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Scared Straight!

1978 film by Arnold Shapiro
Movie film Q1461516
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Scared Straight!

Summary

Scared Straight! is a film[1]. Scared Straight! ranks in the top 3% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (254 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Scared Straight! received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film[3].
  • Scared Straight!'s instance of is recorded as film[4].
  • Scared Straight!'s director is recorded as Arnold Shapiro[5].
  • Scared Straight!'s screenwriter is recorded as Arnold Shapiro[6].
  • Scared Straight!'s genre is recorded as documentary film[7].
  • Scared Straight!'s producer is recorded as Arnold Shapiro[8].
  • Scared Straight!'s director of photography is recorded as William Moffitt[9].
  • Scared Straight!'s IMDb ID is recorded as tt0078205[10].
  • Scared Straight!'s original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[11].
  • Scared Straight!'s color is recorded as color[12].
  • Scared Straight!'s FilmAffinity film ID is recorded as 685057[13].
  • Scared Straight!'s country of origin is recorded as United States[14].
  • Scared Straight!'s publication date is recorded as +1978-01-01T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Scared Straight!'s Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04mq6b[16].
  • Scared Straight!'s narrative location is recorded as East Jersey State Prison[17].
  • Scared Straight!'s title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Scared Straight!'}[18].
  • Scared Straight!'s AllMovie title ID is recorded as v43074[19].
  • Scared Straight!'s MovieMeter film ID is recorded as 85133[20].
  • Scared Straight!'s duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q7727', 'amount': '+52'}[21].
  • Scared Straight!'s Elonet movie ID is recorded as 1397433[22].
  • Scared Straight!'s narrator is recorded as Peter Falk[23].
  • Scared Straight!'s ČSFD film ID is recorded as 44482[24].
  • Scared Straight!'s Kinopoisk film ID is recorded as 184657[25].
  • Scared Straight!'s TCM Movie Database film ID is recorded as 475220[26].
  • Scared Straight!'s EIDR content ID is recorded as 10.5240/8216-FDAC-EB10-0A32-BD0F-Q[27].

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Authorship and Creation

Scared Straight!'s producer is recorded as Arnold Shapiro[8]. Its director is recorded as Arnold Shapiro[5]. Its screenwriter is recorded as Arnold Shapiro[6].

Publication

Scared Straight!'s publication date is recorded as +1978-01-01T00:00:00Z[15]. Its original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[11]. Its genre is recorded as documentary film[7].

Reception

Scared Straight! received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film[3].

Why It Matters

Scared Straight! ranks in the top 3% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (254 views/month).[2] Scared Straight! has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Scared Straight! is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

FAQs

What awards did Scared Straight! receive?

Honors received include Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film[3].

Related Entities

film Peter Falk United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . imdb.com. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . nytimes.com. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . oscars.org. oscars.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Google Knowledge Graph. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Kinopoisk. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Entertainment Identifier Registry. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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