Cinema: Scuffling on the Fringes

"I 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...

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