The Scarecrow (1982 film)

The Scarecrow is a 1982 New Zealand film, also known as

The Scarecrow
Klynham Summer in America. It was directed by Sam Pillsbury
based on the 1963 horror novel by New Zealand author Ronald Directed by Sam Pillsbury
Hugh Morrieson.[1] Written by Michael Heath
Based on The Scarecrow
Plot by Ronald Hugh
Morrieson
One night a girl is slain in the woods of a small town, two
Starring John Carradine
teenagers, Sam and Les, inadvertently cross the killer's path while
Jonathan Smith
robbing the hens of Victor the school bully. According to Sam
Edwards the film is not as bleak as the novel. Small-town New Tracy Mann
Zealand in the 1950s is puritanical on the surface but depraved to Daniel McLaren
its depths. Release 1982
date

Cast Country New Zealand

Language English
Jonathan Smith as Ned Poindexter
Tracy Mann as Prudence Poindexter
Daniel McLaren as Les Wilson
John Carradine as Hubert Salter
Bruce Allpress as Uncle Athol
Philip Holder as Constable Ramsbottom
Stephen Taylor as Herbert Poindexter
Desmond Kelly as Mr. Poindexter
Anne Flannery as Mrs. Poindexter
Denise O'Connell as Angela Potroz
Jonathan Hardy as Charlie Dabney
Martyn Sanderson as Ned as Adult (voice)
Greer Robson as Lynette
Roy Billing as Mr. Potroz
Greg Naughton as Victor Lynch
Mark Hadlow as Sam Finn

References
Scarecrow: A Film Study Guide by Brian McDonnell (1982, Longman Paul Auckland)
ISBN 0582683734
New Zealand Film 1912–1996 by Helen Martin & Sam Edwards p. 81 (1997, Oxford
University Press, Auckland) ISBN 019 558336 1
 1. Moria.co.nz (http://www.moria.co.nz/horror/scarecrow1982.htm)

External links
The Scarecrow (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084636/) at IMDb
The Scarecrow (https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v109011) at AllMovie
The Scarecrow at NZonScreen (with video extracts) (http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-sca
recrow-1981)

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