# L'Épouvantail (1973)

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**Original title**: *Scarecrow*
**Runtime**: 112 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Jerry Schatzberg
**Written by**: Garry Michael White
**Starring**: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch, Eileen Brennan

> *The road leads itself to somewhere.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Hustlers with good boots and bad luck wander, drink with barflies and dream of a steel-gray carwash in Pennsylvania until the road runs out and none of them know why. A sun-bleached drift toward nowhere stalls on a carnival of strangers. Two broken men carry the whole weary trip on their shoulders. 1973’s rain-damp fatalism in jeans.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, raw, slow-burn

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