Cisco Pike (1971) on Netflix
Fresh from jail for drug dealing, Cisco Pike lives in Venice with Sue and writes songs. A crooked LAPD sergeant, Leo Holland, demands he sell confiscated marijuana for $10,000.
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Plot summary
Cisco Pike is out of jail for dealing drugs, living with girlfriend Sue in Venice, going straight, writing songs and singing. Trouble is, he's got another court date, so he's vulnerable to pressure from a crooked cop, LAPD Sergeant Leo Holland, who gives Cisco less than three days to sell bricks of marijuana and deliver $10,000. Cisco tries, but it's complicated by Sue's disappointment that he's dealing again, the unannounced arrival of Jesse (Cisco's old singing partner) strung out on heroine and a recent divorce, and a drug sale that almost ends in a bust. Can Cisco avoid a new arrest, make the sales, get the money to Leo, and maintain his self respect?
Cast
- Chuy Francoas Mexican Man
- Herb Weilas Suspicious Customer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Cisco Pike (1971)
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- Bill L. Norton did not want Karen Black cast in his film, but he gave in when Columbia imposed her as a condition of producing it; the studio expected her recent Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Five Easy Pieces to help promote the release.
- Kris Kristofferson accepted the lead in Cisco Pike after Columbia offered him Norton's script, even though his peers urged him to reject the role and take acting lessons instead; he said he could identify with the character.
- Norton pitched his story to Columbia producer Gerald Ayres, who forwarded the script to Robert Towne; Towne reworked it, added the corrupt police officer who forces Cisco Pike back into the drug world, and expanded the girlfriend's role.
- Filming of Cisco Pike was hit by intense seasonal rain, but the production held to its schedule by shooting in as many as three locations a day.
- After Cisco Pike finished its theatrical run, Columbia Pictures never licensed it for television and never officially released it on VHS, though bootleg recordings circulated and theaters holding original copies still screened it.
- In the third volume of Marvel Comics' Rawhide Kid, the hero's enemy is named after Cisco Pike and his outfit is called "The Cisco Pike Gang"; the character appears in numbers one to five and inhabits the fictional universe Earth-616.
