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Prime Cut (1972)

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Reviews Counted:10

Fresh:7

Rotten:3

Average Rating:5.8/10

Runtime: 86 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Michael Ritchie busts out the ammunition with PRIME CUT, a dramatic thriller that features unforgettable performances from tough guys Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman. Marvin plays Nick, a Chicago... Michael Ritchie busts out the ammunition with PRIME CUT, a dramatic thriller that features unforgettable performances from tough guys Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman. Marvin plays Nick, a Chicago mobster who is sent down to Kansas City in order to investigate the mysterious disappearance of one of his acquaintances. Once there, he meets "Mary Ann" (Hackman), a Kansas City mob boss who also operates a meat processing plant. Upon arriving in the city, Nick discovers the extent of Mary Ann's evil. Along the way he stumbles into a barn that is occupied with captured young women who have been drugged and stripped of their clothes. One of these girls is Poppy (Sissy Spacek), who wants desperately to aid in Mary Ann's tragic demise, freeing her tortured friends in the process. The film opens with a raucous shoot-out in a factory and ends in a famous duel set in an abandoned barn. Thrown into the mix are two brilliantly staged chase scenes that cover a fairground and a cornfield, respectively. Ritchie's second film is a violent yet poignant and entertaining work that will forever be remembered as the movie that introduced Spacek to Hollywood. [More]

Starring: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Gregory Walcott

Starring: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Gregory Walcott, Angel Tompkins, Janit Baldwin, Clint Ellison, William Morey

Director: Michael Ritchie

Director: Michael Ritchie
Screenwriter: Robert Dillon
Producer: Joe Wizan
Composer: Lalo Schifrin

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Enchantingly perverse fairy-tale

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09/25/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion
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A imbecilidade deste filme pode ser resumida pela ridícula cena de perseguição envolvendo uma ceifadeira. Não vale nem como curiosidade por ter marcado a estréia de Spacek no cinema.

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05/12/06
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

A prime piece of machismo.

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02/18/06
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
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02/09/06
Derek Adams
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No review available.

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07/06/05
Emanuel Levy
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more watchable than it ought to be

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06/20/05
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

...you really can't go wrong with a film that casts Gene Hackman as a sleazy villain named Mary Ann.

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06/10/05
David Nusair
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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
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Nasty stockyard mob tale filled with human link-sausages.

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10/15/04
Steve Crum
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Kansas City Kansan

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10/31/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Mesmerisingly tacky crime film about evildoing in a Midwester meat empire that could only have been made by people who never set foot in Kansas.

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07/27/03
Dan Lybarger
Dan Lybarger
Nitrate Online
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