Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)

Directors

Frank De Felitta

Cast

Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith

The story

In a small town in the Deep South, the friendship between Charles Eliot "Bubba" Ritter, a large but gentle mentally challenged man, and young Marylee Williams angers some of the townspeople, especially brooding, mean-spirited postal worker Otis Hazelrigg. When Marylee is mauled by a vicious dog, Hazelrigg, promptly assuming that Bubba is responsible, forms a lynch mob with three friends: gas station attendant Skeeter Norris and farmer-cousins Philby and Harliss Hocker. Bubba's mother disguises him as a scarecrow and posts him in a nearby field, but the lynch party's bloodhounds sniff Bubba out and the helpless Bubba is gunned down by all…

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