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1982 New Zealand film

The Scarecrow
Directed by	Sam Pillsbury
Written by	Michael Heath
Based on	The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Starring	John Carradine Jonathan Smith Tracy Mann Daniel McLaren
Release date	1982 (1982)
Country	New Zealand
Language	English

The Scarecrow is a 1982 New Zealand film, also known as Klynham Summer in America. It was directed by Sam Pillsbury based on the 1963 horror novel by New Zealand author Ronald Hugh Morrieson.

Plot

One night a girl is slain in the woods of a small town, two teenagers, Sam and Les, inadvertently cross the killer's path while robbing the hens of Victor the school bully.

According to Sam Edwards the film is not as bleak as the novel. Small-town New Zealand in the 1950s is puritanical on the surface but depraved to its depths.

Cast

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

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External links

v t e Films directed by Sam Pillsbury
The Scarecrow (1982) Starlight Hotel (1987) Zandalee (1991) Into the Badlands (1991) Knight Rider 2010 (1994) Eyes of Terror (1994) Search for Grace (1994) Shadows of Desire (1994) Sins of Silence (1996) A Mother's Instinct (1996) Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997) Fifteen and Pregnant (1998) Morgan's Ferry (2001) Crooked Earth (2001) Where the Red Fern Grows (2003) Raising Waylon (2004) Endless Bummer (2009)

Films directed by Sam Pillsbury

The Scarecrow (1982)
Starlight Hotel (1987)
Zandalee (1991)
Into the Badlands (1991)
Knight Rider 2010 (1994)
Eyes of Terror (1994)
Search for Grace (1994)
Shadows of Desire (1994)
Sins of Silence (1996)
A Mother's Instinct (1996)
Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
Morgan's Ferry (2001)
Crooked Earth (2001)
Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
Raising Waylon (2004)
Endless Bummer (2009)

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