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| Prime Cut | 
 enlarge | Director: Michael Ritchie
Actors: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Sissy Spacek
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 26191
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 86
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARD888894D
ISBN: 1415710457
UPC: 097368888944
EAN: 9781415710456
ASIN: B0008KLVA0
Theatrical Release Date: 1972
Release Date: June 14, 2005
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Product Description
A kansas city mobster using a meat packing factory as a front grinds gangsters into sausage and sells women like cattle. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 06/14/2005 Starring: Lee Marvin Gene Hackman Run time: 86 minutes Rating: R Director: Michael Ritchie
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Prime Cut is a strangely likeable if decidedly oddball thriller from 1972. A happy collision of gangster genre grit (validated by Lee Marvin's granite-faced lead performance) with a strain of shameless (though shrewd) exploitation not unfamiliar to screenwriter Robert Dillon (X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes), plus the kinetic, semi-documentary wit of director Michael Ritchie (The Candidate) makes Prime Cut both a straightforward noir and a satire of itself. Marvin plays Nick, an aging enforcer for the Chicago mob, sent to Kansas City to deal with a ruthless cattle baron (Gene Hackman) who owes a half-million to Windy City racketeers. Hackman's character (inexplicably named Mary Ann), dismissive of old-guard crime chieftains, has set up his own heartland empire guarded by a weird contingent of blond, lookalike young men with rifles. Not only does he render the bodies of his enemies into sausage meat, Mary Ann is making a fortune trafficking in naked, enslaved young women. One of the latter, played by Sissy Spacek (in her film debut), falls under the protection of Nick, who sets about taking Mary Ann down. Ritchie's highly energized, absurdist scenes (e.g., a gunfight in an endless field of sunflowers) are nicely counterpointed by Marvin's smooth anti-heroics and the self-conscious cheesiness of the sex slave angle. --Tom Keogh
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Probably Ingrid Newkirk's favorite movie November 16, 2007
Lee Marvin as an enforcer for the Chicago Irish (?!) mob, Gene Hackman playing a character named Mary Ann, Sissy Spacek (before she started looking like a leprechaun) in a see-through dress, and a fight between a limousine and a wheat harvester- this is what people go to the movies for! OK, maybe just male people. Add a proto-feminist-vegan comparison of the exploitation of animals to the exploitation of women and a great performance by one of the cast members from Plan 9 From Outer Space and you have the most unjustly neglected film of the 70's. If possible, watch it on a bleary, worn-out full-screen VHS copy like I did for for the full sleazy effect.
Lee Marvin V Gene Hackman July 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a rarely seen movie which basically is a showcase for the great acting of Hackman and Marvin - stoic Marvin taking on out of control pig farmer and sausage maker Hackman in a battle of wills with bizarre overtones.
You have to see Hackman at the end in the slaughter house to really believe it - a cacophony of screaming pigs
being the backdrop to Hackman's demise.
 Sexy Sissy April 28, 2007
5 stars for the film's only worthwhile feature, some lovely displays of young sissy's nude bod, especially nice is her opening scene in the hay showing her top to bottom, front and back. her breasts are absolutely perfect.
Yummy! February 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
SO many of the best films came out of the 70's and this is certainly one of them. Mobsters, sex slave trade, and most of all good ole' country cuisine make Prime Cut a real winner. The photography is beatiful, the direction very cunning, and the performances terrific. A real oddity in some ways, but a great twisted ride for those willing to take the chance on on older film.
Oldy but Goody January 16, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This a classic with great acting and some light nudity that was well before its time. Worth a watch or two just so you can brag about having seen it. Gene Hackman, Lee Marvin (at the top of their games) and a very young Sissy Spasick- need more be said?
The Bobster
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