Prime Cut
Prime Cut is a 1972 American action crime film produced by Joe Wizan, directed by Michael Ritchie from a screenplay written by Robert Dillon, and starring Lee Marvin, who portrays a mob enforcer from the Chicago Irish Mob sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss played by Gene Hackman. The picture co-stars Sissy Spacek in her first credited on-screen role as a young orphan being sold into prostitution as well as Angel Tompkins and Eddie Egan.
Plot
A slaughterhouse process follows the unloading of cattle to the making of sausages. A wristwatch and a shoe appear on a conveyor line, making it clear that a human cadaver is processed among the cattle. A woman operating the sausage machine is interrupted by "Weenie", who has timed the machine using his watch. He wraps up a string of sausages, then marks the package with an address in Chicago.
More details
author | Robert Dillon |
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contentLocation | Kansas |
director | Michael Ritchie |
editor | Carl Pingitore |
genre | action crime thriller |
keywords | ambulance ambush beg cattle pen combine harvester commandeer county fair enforcer entertain float flophouse gang-rape greenhouse grow up gun battle houseboat injured irish mob kansas city kill machine making of matron missouri missouri river mob enforcer orphanage pig pen prostitute ram river sausage sexual slavery slaughterhouse slave auction smith & wesson m76 string submachine gun sunflower the making of warn wheat wheat field white slave wound wwii young women |
musicBy | Lalo Schifrin |
producer | Joe Wizan |
productionCompany | Cinema Center Films |
publisher | National General Pictures |
theme | neo-noir |