Scarecrow (1973)

 Scarecrow (1973) is a very good, underrated film. Starring two actors who were totally opposite in acting technique. Scarecrow follows two drifters.

Max (Gene Hackman) is an ex-con who's been saving money to open a car wash in Pittsburgh.

Lionel (Al Pacino) is a sailor who's returning home to the midwest to see the child born while he was at sea.

They form an unlikely pair as the brawling Max learns a little about how Lionel copes with the world.

This film is very sad, in my opinion, and very disturbing when you get close to the end.

The entire cast acting is very good. However, Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography pretty much steals the show.

The Colorado and California sweeping landscapes that he photographed, especially at the beginning of the film, are breath-taking.

Scarecrow quickly died at the box office, but it often lives on TCM, and I've found it on Netflix and Peacock.

Starring Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedegworth, Richard Lynch, and Eileen Brennan.

Directed by Jerry Schatzberg