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...used to be a teen-age idol," laments the eponymous hero of Cisco Pike. Now, down and out in Venice, Calif., he is trying for a comeback, but the record companies are no longer interested...
...Cisco (Kris Kristofferson) kept money in his jeans for a while by dealing dope, but he quit after getting busted twice. His arresting officer (Gene Hackman) visits him one day with a proposition. The cop is in need of money fast. He has got hold of a shipment of high-quality grass and wants Cisco to deal it. Then maybe he will shade his testimony on the two busts to Cisco's advantage. Cisco loads the stash into his guitar case and hits the street...
...much of the movie is taken up with Cisco's rounds. There are a lot of grungy, evocative Los Angeles locations (diners, the back streets of housing developments), but the action is too episodic to sustain interest. Despite this, and an absurd denouement better suited to the pages of a Marvel comic book, there are indications throughout that Writer-Director Bill L. Norton was up to something more than just another movie about youth and hard knocks...
Norton is especially good at conveying the casual desperation of someone scuffling along the fringes of show biz, biding his time and hoping for a break. Some of his scenes have the unhurried air of good improvisation. Others are burdened by some awfully thick dialogue. At one point, Cisco's girl (Karen Black) demands, "It's me or dealing; make up your mind...
...Cisco Kid. One of three sons of a Philadelphia policeman, Rizzo more than earned his tough-cop reputation. While still a patrolman, he was nicknamed "the Cisco Kid" for breaking up a gang fight singlehanded. As commissioner, he prevented almost certain race riots by keeping large groups of police at the ready, sometimes loaded onto buses, and rushing them into potential trouble spots at the first sign of a disturbance...