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Released
1973 · FILM

Scarecrow

Two restless drifters journey across America, chasing their dream of opening a car‑wash empire in gritty Pittsburgh while battling love‑struck temptations and the unforgiving road that threatens to derail their partnership.

The road leads itself to somewhere.

Directed by
Runtime
112 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Two drifters spend their time wandering, visiting earthy women and discussing the possibility of opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Evan A LottmanShot by Vilmos ZsigmondScored by Fred MyrowDesigned by Albert Brenner

Box Office

1973 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$4.0M

Budget$875K
Worldwide gross$4.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Asphalt-Blütende
  • Asphaltblütende
  • L'Épouvantailfr
  • Lo spaventapasseriit

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