Scarecrow is a 1973 American road comedy-drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.

Two vagabonds—Max Millan, a short-tempered ex-convict, and Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi, a childlike former sailor—meet on the road in California and agree to become partners in a car-wash business when they reach Pittsburgh.

Lion is traveling to Detroit to see a child whom he has never met and make amends with his wife Annie, to whom he has sent all of the money that he had earned while at sea.

The consensus reads: "If its dramatic dressings are a tad threadbare, Scarecrow survives on the strength of its lead performances and Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography.

[8] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film three stars out of four, comparing the story to those of Of Mice and Men and Midnight Cowboy, and positively reviewed the performances of Pacino and Hackman, as well as the writing and setting.

[9] In The New York Times, Vincent Canby called Max and Lion "classic drifters" and "marvelously realized characters".

[11] Peter Biskind of Seven Days magazine described the film as of "secondary" significance in his book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.