Scarecrow (1973 film)
- Gene Hackman: Max Millan
- Al Pacino: Francis Lionel Delbuchi
- Dorothy Tristan: Coley
- Ann Wedgeworth: Frenchy
- Richard Lynch: Jack Riley
- Eileen Brennan: Darlene
- Penelope Allen: Annie Gleason
- Richard Hackman: Mickey Grenwood
- Al Cingolani: Skipper
- Rutanya Alda: Woman in motor home
Scarecrow ( Original title: Scarecrow ) is an American film drama from 1973 was directed by Jerry Schatzberg, the screenplay was written by Garry Michael White. .
Action
Max Millan is released from prison and dreams of opening her own business. Francis Lionel Delbuchi looking for a woman with whom joined him years ago a relationship and he had left pregnant. Both men wander through the U.S. and get to know in California. Millan and Delbuchi become friends, even though Max rather a violent loner and Francis is a gregarious prankster. Millan takes part in some road brawling. Then both go to jail. Finally, they go to Detroit, where Francis wants to see his child.
He gets jitters and calls his former girlfriend in first. She is now married and you can see her son play in the room. On the phone, she told Francis, however, her son had died before birth. This prepares Francis guilty and torments him, he does not tell it but Max. Inwardly he finally eaten suffers a nervous breakdown and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
Background
The film was shot, among others, in Cañon City (Colorado), Reno (Nevada ), in Detroit and Hamtramck (Michigan). He was shown after the world premiere on April 11, 1973 in New York City for May 1973 at the International Film Festival in Cannes.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on April 12, 1973, the film offers good moments that you owe the talented Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. However, he manifest a philosophy for the movie characters play only a minor role ( " The moment we hear the philosophy behind the scarecrow [ ... ] we begin to suspect thesis characters are too conscious of Their symbolic roles, and we're right" ). The film was concentrating too much on its visual side, which had to do with the cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond.
The lexicon of the International film wrote that the film shows " in optically effective full and atmospherically dense frame " the " story of a partnership in which two unequal men discover that they have something to give each other ". He was " in the plot and the characterization of the people strongly visible thickness ", but the film is proving to be " a sensitive and moving."
Awards
Jerry Schatzberg won in 1973 the Grand Prix and the OCIC Award at the International Film Festival of Cannes. He received the Danish Bodil price and the Japanese Kinema Junpo Award 1974.