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    Prime Cut. Prime Cut is a 1972 American action thriller 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.

  2. Jul 8, 1972 · Prime Cut: Directed by Michael Ritchie. With Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott. A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations.

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    • Action, Crime, Drama
    • Michael Ritchie
    • 1972-07-08
  3. Far-out. Now you begin to see why “Prime Cut” is like a comic strip. It is broken up into several large set pieces (the introduction, the trip to Kansas City, Marvin's rescue of one of the orphan girls, a couple of love scenes, the fairgrounds, the reaper, and a gunfight). This structure is a lot less complex than those in the gangster ...

  4. Jun 14, 2005 · Prime Cut is also an oddly prescient action movie. The concentration on visuals, disinterest in social realism and genre cross-pollination are much more like the concerns of a graphic novel than was the norm in 1970s crime dramas.

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  5. Summaries. A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out. A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only ...

  6. The working title of the film was Kansas City Prime. According to Filmfacts, National General changed the title to Prime Cut to avoid confusion with the M-G-M release Kansas City Bomber. As the opening credits roll, a slaughterhouse sequence is shown in which the cows are slaughtered and butchered into sausage meat as "Weenie" oversees the process.

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  8. Prime Cut. R 1972 1h 31m Crime Drama. List. 71% Tomatometer 14 Reviews. 72% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings. A Chicago mob collector (Lee Marvin) calls on a Kansas cattleman (Gene Hackman) who also ...

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