Cisco Pike
Gene Hackman: A Week with the Gene Genie
July 25 - 31, 2025
This portrait of L.A. burnout follows a washed-up musician (Kris Kristofferson) coerced into one last drug deal by a desperate narcotics cop, played with twitchy menace and tragic weariness by Gene Hackman.
A portrait of L.A. burnout at the blurry end of the counterculture, Cisco Pike follows a washed-up musician (Kris Kristofferson, in his screen debut) coerced into one last drug deal by a desperate narcotics cop, played with a mixture of twitchy menace and weariness by Gene Hackman. Shot the same year as The French Connection but set on the opposite coast, the film trades New York grit for California drift, floating through a city sun-bleached and slack with disillusionment. Derided on release—Vincent Canby claimed it “took all the discipline [he] could muster not to walk out”—Cisco Pike now plays like a woozy dispatch from the last gasps of the ’60s, and an early glimpse of Hackman’s gift for channeling power into desperation.
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