Our Screening on Thursday 14 October will be introduced by freelance film programmer Nathasha Orlando Kappler.

Oscar-winning superstars Gene Hackman and Al Pacino star as two born losers - one a gruff ex-con who dreams of owning his own carwash and the other, a clowning, likable ex-seaman Just out of jail after serving time on an assault rap, Max (Gene Hackman) is headed for Pittsburgh to open a deluxe car wash. Back from five years at sea, Lion (Al Pacino) wants to hit Detroit and visit the child he's never seen. Co-winner of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize, Scarecrow features moving performances of Hackman and Pacino, and glowing landscape cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond.

Cast:
Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth