Karen Black drives by the Campus Theatre, 1020 N. Vermont Ave., in "Cisco Pike" (Columbia, 1971). This bit in the upper left is about all we get to see, other than a small section of the readerboard a moment earlier revealing that they were running the 1970 release "Soldier Blue." Karen's not happy about having to pick up her boyfriend, Kris Kristofferson, stranded after he's fled to avoid the cops when a drug deal turned out to be a setup. This was Kristofferson's first movie.
Bill Norton directed the film, which also stars Gene Hackman, Harry Dean Stanton, Viva, Joy Bang and Roscoe Lee Browne. The cinematography by Vilis Lapenieks features lots of time in Venice, nice shots of the ruins of POP, and many scenes in other locations on the west side of L.A.
See the page about the Campus Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site. It opened in 1939, a design of S.E. Sonnichsen. It's still around, but rebuilt in a major way as a music venue.
On IMDb: "Cisco Pike"
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