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Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg, USA, 1973)

  • The Lord Palmerston 86 Highgate Road London, England, NW5 1PB United Kingdom (map)
This is a jewel of American cinema.
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

Gene Hackman and Al Pacino star as Max and Lion, a couple of homeless drifters who meet on the road in California and agree to become partners in a car-wash business when they reach Pittsburgh. But their journey east doesn't quite go according to plan... Scarecrow is one of the obscurer offerings from New Hollywood: an unsee quietly devastating film about friendship, dreams, and the loneliness of drifters.