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DETROIT FREE PRESS Wednesday, June 20, '73 9-D SINGLE? 11-10 Y.u. K.J.I mm. ii''iiuyi In Mthlfan fcr Tin Itmn. PhimM Nm MICHIGAN INTERACTION! INC nnnnw rmiId-rha A ilfXDERENZY Th maker of Censorship in Denmark I His lory of the Blue Movie Snu'thfialrl Mich 481)75 his reached I new plateau in adult films T0NLY7 MOREDAYSl 4 Funny Thing Happened on the Way To the Car Wash FOLLIZS i ST AGtttititn theatre I CAOIllAC so. WO 3-4505 1 WCWKi.

OriiattWMtll1. Mi-Land i I OPtN DAILY 7T-1Slt OPINM Hackman: An ingenious performance. 45AM Art 'A HOCKS NOetH a Dull OF DAVISON 13141 WOOOWAIO is if An daily 10 45 AM BPiJIESril? Sun. 12 Is 13. Neighborhood Theaters Max Gr Hackman Lion Al Pacino Colav Dorothy Tristan Franchy Ann Wedgeworth Rllev Rlctiard Lynch Annie Penny Allen A Warner Brother! release, produced bv Robert M.

Sherman and directed bv Jerry Scrratzbero; with screenplay by Gerrv Michael White; Dhotoqraphv by Vilmos Zslomond, music by Fred Myrow. In color. Rated R. the way screenwriter Garry Michael White allows one of his two central figures to remain a vapor, not enigmatic but simply unexplained, without motivation. While Hack-man's character grows fuller and richer with each passing sequence, Packio's character becomes progressively more puzzling.

IT IS significant that we are given a reason, straight out, for. Hackman's desire to fofm a partnership with Pacino. We are not even given a clue about Pacino's motive. We end up, therefore, where we started out: Wondering why a sensitive, nice-looking, amiable young man ended up in the same boat with a 1 ceived, aging, all-brawn-no-brain loser. And we wonder what the interest of such a baffling liason might be for the general movie audience who, three years ago, saw a far braver and more purposeful treatment of a similar theme in "Midnight Cowboy." Still, "Screcrow" does offer ample opportunity to watch Hackman, a remarkably resourceful actor by any standard, show his stuff.

He has a mock strip-ease sequence, performed for a motley collection of bar flies in some randy saloon, that must be counted among the movies' most memorable comic turns. There are also same fine cameo performances from women encountered along the way, among them Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth and Penny Allen. UJ young man, played by Al Pacino, a piece of a Pittsburgh car-wash business he hat planned and saved for. The young man accepts, be fore he even knows what kind of business he is to bt a partner In or where. They drift some more, stopping to check with Hackman's sister in Den-, ver and with the wife Pacino abandoned in Detroit, until the film comes to its unhappy but inevitable conclusion.

Better to say conclusion-of-sorts. The detail about the circumstance under which the partnership was formed pretty much sums up the weakness of "Scarecrow." Its screenplay sags under the weight of too many vagaries. Occasionally, it even lapses into inconsistency. At one point, for instance, we are told that. Hack-man just finished six years in San Quentin.

at another point, we. learn that he served a nineear term. More disturbing than that kind of sloppiness, however, is Theatre OAKMAN BLVO -ALIEN D. tloilaFo4tS'lil4X-wyDU I I Sid Owly SO AM So A Sun. 1-10 PM fi2is vjGcaiss teste it iso ILhOO cinema 136 5 1 Ml.

N.Of Sho.l.i PMONI 164 1133 Daily AM I. 1AM SUN II BY SUSAN STARK Free Preti Film Critic Thanks to an ingenious performance from Gene Hack-man, "Scarecrow" commands more attention than its mean-d i and fundamentally pointless narrative deserves. Hackman plays a middle-aged, belligerent ex-con fresh out of Quentin, happens upon a friendly and instantly likable young man along some lonely, wind-swept road in northern California. The two drift awhile together. Then Hackman decides to offer the STANDS PHOTOGRAPHICALLY HEAD AND SHOULDERS ABOVE AND MORE VARIED! THE FIRST TEN MINUTES ACHIEVE MODIGLIANI TONES.

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