# Identify opening location in Scarecrow (1973)

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**Created:** [November 17, 2017, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-opening-location-in-scarecrow-1973/801850 "2017-11-17T06:00:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-opening-location-in-scarecrow-1973/801850/1 "2017-11-17T06:00:58Z")

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This time I’m wondering about the opening filming location to Scarecrow (1973).

[https://ibb.co/gC10A6](https://ibb.co/gC10A6)

[https://ibb.co/kdZbiR](https://ibb.co/kdZbiR)  
It kind of looks like near where James Dean was killed in Cholame, California.

https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211siyKJ6SKdZgXkddo7j7bEKQ%212m2%211d35.7069459%212d-120.2897011%213f206.37%214f9.999%215f0.19

Although there are no California locations listed here, which doesn’t necessarily mean anything.

> **[Scarecrow (1973) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070643/locations?ref_=tt_dt_dt)**
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**Author:** ![TheSundial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@TheSundial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSundial)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-opening-location-in-scarecrow-1973/801850/2 "2017-11-21T09:22:56Z")

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No one recognizes where this could be?