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  1. Jun 21, 2022 · A flop when it was released 50 years ago, ‘Cisco Pike’ wasn’t just the singer-songwriter’s first starring role, says Leonie Cooper, it deserves to be heralded as one of the Seventies ...

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  2. Jun 21, 2022 · Yet despite plugging directly into the rock’n’roll zeitgeist, Cisco Pike was a mammoth flop, tanking at the box office and scoring a host of bad reviews. It’s culter than cult now, but at the time The New York Times ’s Vincent Canby slammed it as “banal”, caustically adding that “it takes all the discipline I can muster to keep from immediately walking out of the theatre”.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cisco_PikeCisco Pike - Wikipedia

    Cisco Pike is a 1972 American drama film that was written and directed by Bill L. Norton, and released by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Kris Kristofferson as a musician who, having fallen on hard times, turns to the selling of marijuana and is blackmailed by a police officer (Gene Hackman). The movie, which is Norton's directorial debut and ...

  4. 3 days ago · Although most chroniclers of Los Angeles since Raymond Chandler have focused on the sin lurking behind expensive iron gates, Cisco Pike blithely suggests that everybody is a dope fiend, from hotel doormen to hairdressers to country-club bluebloods. Norton wanted to normalize the idea of the pot smoker, to acknowledge that the Summer of Love forever changed something about America.

  5. February 16, 1972. 3 min read. “Cisco Pike” is a long way from being a masterpiece, but it has a nice hang-loose texture to it, and a group of good performances. The performance that holds it together comes, somewhat surprisingly, from Kris Kristofferson. I admit to surprise because popular singers are usually pretty awful in their movie ...

  6. May 28, 2006 · The Celluloid Time Capsule. By Sean Howe. May 28, 2006 12 AM PT. The hippie-burnout drama “Cisco Pike” is a movie in which the optimism of the 1960s slips into the disappointing loneliness ...

  7. scopophiliamovieblog.com › 2020/11/27 › cisco-pike-1971Cisco Pike (1971) | Scopophilia

    Nov 27, 2020 · Cisco Pike (1971) 4-Word Review: Blackmailed into dealing drugs. Cisco Pike (Kris Kristofferson) is a down-on-his-luck singer who once was playing to sell-out crowds, but finds his popularity declining and resorting to selling drugs to maintain a living, but under pressure from his girlfriend Sue (Karen Black) has stopped.

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