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1 October 1979 (Sweden)
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Gene Hackman and Kris Kristofferson and Karen Black and Viva and a footrace...a crooked cop...a lot of money and so little time. more
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Cisco is an ex-rock star who has become a drug dealer. A corrupt cop blackmails Cisco to sell marijuana for him...
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Great first effort for Kris Kristofferson
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kris Kristofferson | ... | Cisco Pike | |
| Karen Black | ... | Sue | |
| Gene Hackman | ... | Officer Leo Holland | |
| Harry Dean Stanton | ... | Jesse Dupre (as H.D. Stanton) | |
| Viva | ... | Merna | |
| Joy Bang | ... | Lynn | |
| Roscoe Lee Browne | ... | Music Store Owner | |
| Chuy Franco | ... | Mexican Man | |
| Severn Darden | ... | Lawyer | |
| Herb Weil | ... | Suspicious Customer | |
| Antonio Fargas | ... | Buffalo | |
| Doug Sahm | ... | Rex (as Douglas Sahm) | |
| Howard Hesseman | ... | Recording Engineer (as Don Sturdy) | |
| Allan Arbus | ... | Sim Valensi (as Alan Arbus) | |
| Frank Hotchkiss | ... | Motorcycle Officer |
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95 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Seymour Cassel was set to star but left shortly before filming began. Kris Kristofferson was a last minute replacement.
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Crew or equipment visible: Crew and tripod clearly visible in reflection of phone booth 23 minutes into the movie, after he rents the car.
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Breakdown
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What a great movie this is. It's low key through-out, but a terrific look back at the very early 70s in the California music business. Many 70s icons are here, you even see a lava lamp on a guy's desk!
In how many movies do you see Kris do the following... almost get busted by the cops for selling 10 kilos of primo killer weed to Woodstock icon Wavy Gravy, drag a drugged-up Harry Dean Stanton around who has been up for days and is impotent, receive oral favors from underground film star Viva, get naked with a 1960s porn star with the hysterical name of Joy Bang, eat a diner meal with a pimped-up Antonio Vargas and share a topless nude scene with Karen Black? It's all here, man! Add in Gene Hackman lurking around as a crooked narc and 100 keys of weed to sell in a weekend for no less than $10,000 and you have the making for an off-beat classic that hardly anyone knows about.
It has the low-budget look of a movie like "Billy Jack" and, at the very beginning, during the opening credits, will remind you of a TV movie. But this was no TV movie! As much drugs as a Cheech & Chong movie and a decent soundtrack if you like early Kristofferson. As a sidenote, in a flashback we see Kris and Harry Dean Stanton onstage at a concert that MUST have been filmed live and spliced into this movie. It ties in the claim that they both used to play together.
I am trying to think of what might make a good double-feature with this. Perhaps "Billy Jack", the first one. Just to get a bigger picture of early 70s small budget "indy" type movies. They both have a sort of outlaw storyline anyway.
If you can find it, get it. If it comes on TV, tape it. You won't regret it.