Scarecrow is a 1973 road movie starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. The story revolves around the odd relationship between two vagabonds: Max Milian , a short-tempered ex-convict, and Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi , a childlike ex-sailor. They meet on the road in California and agree to become partners in a business, once they reach Pittsburgh. Lion is on his way to Detroit to see the child he has never met and make amends with his wife Annie, to whom he has been sending all the money he made while at sea. Max agrees to make a detour on his way to Pittsburgh, where the bank that Max has been... sending all his seed money is located. His plans are to open a car wash, with Lionel as a partner. While visiting Max's sister in Denver, the two's antics land them in a prison work-house for a month. Max blames Lion for being sent back to jail and shuns him. Lion is befriended, then assaulted by an inmate named Riley . Max proceeds to teach Riley a lesson, rekindling his friendship with Lion.
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| Release date: | April 11, 1973 |
| Directed by: | Jerry Schatzberg |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 112 Minutes |
| Producer: | Robert M. Sherman |
| Music by: | Fred Myrow |
| Cinematography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| Screenplay by: | Garry Michael White |