SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS
$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission)
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.
Los Feliz 3 | Introduction by author Caden Mark Gardner
Book signing with Caden Mark Gardner for his book Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema prior to the screening at 3:30pm at the Los Feliz 3, in partnership with Skylight Books.
‘Taking Pride’
Restoration courtesy of the Academy Film Archive and the American Genre Film Archive
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- RELEASED IN: 1972
- 82 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: Robert J. Kaplan
ABOUT THE FILM:
SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS (Robert J. Kaplan) is no ordinary ‘fish out of water’ story. Once feared as a ‘lost film’, it runs in the mold of other cult classics like Robert Downey Sr.’s PUTNEY SWOPE (1969), Tom Schiller’s NOTHING LASTS FOREVER (1984) and Timothy Carey’s THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER (1962) as a feverish live-action fairytale. The legendary Warhol Superstar and trans icon Holly Woodlawn plays Eve, who gets off the bus from New York City with ambition but finds herself in an urban fantasy where cursing nuns drive taxis and Chelsea Hotel bellboys wear gas masks. Robert J. Kaplan’s 1972 musical comedy is full of Old Hollywood callouts with characters having the names of Margo Channing, Eve Harrington, and Blanche DuBlois with musical numbers that are a cocktail of Broadway kitsch and Sesame Street. Woodlawn is unsurprisingly charismatic, carrying the film in its musical numbers and even donning male drag. Fellow New York legend Tally Brown (TALLY BROWN, NEW YORK (1979)) is also unforgettable in a supporting role. Thanks to a 2022 restoration by the Academy Film Archive, SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS is ripe for rediscovery for today’s cinephiles.
Programming Notes by author Caden Mark Gardner
FORMAT: DCP
DISTRIBUTOR: AGFA
COUNTRY: USA
