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Prime Cut (1972)

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Michael Ritchie, better known for his gentle satires of American social institutions, enters Don Siegel territory in the unusual crime thriller Prime Cut. Lee Marvin is surly collection agent Nick Devlin, who is hired by Chicago racketeer Jake (Eddie Egan) to collect an overdue payment from Kansas cattle baron Mary Ann (yes, Mary Ann!) (Gene Hackman). When Devlin travels west to get Jake's money from Mary Ann, he finds the cattle king mixed up in complex drug deals and pimping wild women -- two

Jun 14, 2005

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Enchantingly perverse fairy-tale

September 25, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

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.

May 12, 2006 Comment
Cinema em Cena

A prime piece of machismo.

February 18, 2006 Full Review Source: FulvueDrive-in.com | Comment
FulvueDrive-in.com

more watchable than it ought to be

June 20, 2005 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment (1)
Filmcritic.com

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

June 10, 2005 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | Comment
Reel Film Reviews

Nasty stockyard mob tale filled with human link-sausages.

October 15, 2004 Comment

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.

July 27, 2003 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Prime Cut

Sissy Spacek made her film debut in this sleazy but energetic crime thriller about big-times gangsters and the slaughterhouse they use to convert their enemies into sausage is a highly entertaining gangster film with co-stars Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman. Michael Ritchie takes iconic actors like Marvin and Hackman, who

September 20, 2009
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Dean McKenna

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This movie made me kinda sick. Nothing like women being sold like meat to make you feel all good inside.

December 2, 2007
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Curtis Lilly

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