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Written and directed by Bill L. Norton, Cisco Pike opens in a handful of theatres. In his first starring role, singer/songwriter Kris Kristofferson slips comfortably into the shoes of the title character, a fading, down-on-his-luck LA-based musician cum small-time marijuana dealer who falls out of the frying pan into the fire when his nemesis, a sleazy, crooked cop (Gene Hackman), gives him three days to move 100 kilos of weed or face jail time. A low-budget, little-seen gem, palpably evoking the specifities of time and place, and firmly anchored by the measured, muted melancholy of Kristofferson’s minimalist performance. Karen Black co-stars.
