Crisco Fish
Cisco Pike (1972)
directed by Bill L. Norton
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
If a director today put a print of Charles Manson on the wall of a drug-abusing socialite in 1970s Los Angeles, the dramatic shorthand would be no less obvious than the same stage prop thirty-five years ago. Too, not all movies of their own era are necessarily dated, but this is. Cisco's wife, disregarded in her yogic worry, is sympathetic to her husband, but he, a spoke in the crooked wheel, does no better than leave her. Far-out Doug Sahm and his bobblehead Quintet say the lines, but herky-jerky can't sell good-hearted Sir Doug's betrayal of mentor Cisco; I can just picture Augie asking everyone, "Why the long faces?"
directed by Bill L. Norton
rating: 2 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
If a director today put a print of Charles Manson on the wall of a drug-abusing socialite in 1970s Los Angeles, the dramatic shorthand would be no less obvious than the same stage prop thirty-five years ago. Too, not all movies of their own era are necessarily dated, but this is. Cisco's wife, disregarded in her yogic worry, is sympathetic to her husband, but he, a spoke in the crooked wheel, does no better than leave her. Far-out Doug Sahm and his bobblehead Quintet say the lines, but herky-jerky can't sell good-hearted Sir Doug's betrayal of mentor Cisco; I can just picture Augie asking everyone, "Why the long faces?"
posted by NPK at 8:33 AM
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