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Any way they slice it, it’s going to be murder
A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.
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Prime Cut
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Il boia, la vittima e l’assassino, Carnage, A Marca da Brutalidade, Carne de Primeira, Kansas City Prime, Carnicería humana, Първокачествено парче, Carne viva, Die Professionals, Arma da taglio, Színhús, 双龙大火拼, Прецизен разрез, Lihakirves, Hakkedrenge, Первоклассный товар, 프라임 컷, Carn viva, Konec rozkvětu, החלק הארי, สับแหลก
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01 Jun 1972
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28 Jun 1972
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08 Sep 1972
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14 Sep 1972
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15 Sep 1972
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Australia
01 Jun 1972
- TheatricalR 18+
France
08 Sep 1972
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15 Sep 1972
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14 Sep 1972
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16 Jun 1972
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Irish mob enforcer Lee Marvin tries to bust up Gene Hackman's rural Kansas sex slave farm abetted by a frequently nude Sissy Spacek. If you need more than that, we're very different people.
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Lee Marvin as Nick Devlin; an aging Chicago mafia enforcer, sent to Kansas City to collect a high dollar debt from a ruthless cattle rancher played by Gene Hackman. Lee quickly finds out Hack is not only dealing with hamburgers, but he's selling sex slaves as a side business. Our hero, comes in contact with one of these slaves, (Sissy Spacek in her feature film debut) and like all knights in shining armor, he saves her like Mario saves the Princess. This act, leads to the ultimate showdown between Lee and his crew, vs Hack and his henchmen. Who will survive? What's really in that hotdog? Should I still eat meat after watching? Prime Cut, directed by Michael Ritchie, is…
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If you want to see a human being turned into a hot dog, watch Prime Cut.
If you want to see a thresher chew up a Buick, watch Prime Cut.
If you want to watch an eighteen wheeler destroy a greenhouse, watch Prime Cut.
If you want to watch Lee Marvin kick ass, watch Prime Cut, or about sixty other movies. 😎 -
No one: 'How would you like a showdown between Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman, going down inside a barn as the unassuming mooing of the cows and the occasional grunting of the pigs fold the sound of gunshots into their embrace, while outside the rain continues its peaceful drizzle, lending the tableau a dreamy quality as the cows moo their last moos and the pigs grunt their last grunts...'
Me: 'Say no more, pal.'
(They really should have given Marvin a shotgun, though. That half-assed automatic was way too unsuitable.)
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Lee Marvin making his way through a field full of sunflowers armed with an SMG is such a cool visual and the shootout that follwers is pretty damn good too!
Lee Marvin is an enforcer for the Chicago mafia who is sent to Kansas to collect money owed by the owner of a slaughterhouse who not only deals in cattle but human flesh as well. This is where we are introduced to Poppy played by Sissy Spacek in a very early role - naked, drugged up, and being offered to the highest bidder. Marvin can't ignore her cries for help and ends up taking her out of this living nightmare. This is the point where we become aware of there…
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A nasty piece of pulp cinema from the early 70s. Fascinating to see one of the great comedy/satirical directors Michael Ritchie play in this space without winking. That’s not to say this doesn’t have funny or witty moments, it certainly does but this lean and straight.
You hardly think of Marvin and Hackman as contemporaries but they just work so well as opposing forces here.
True announcement debut performance from Spacek.
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“You eat guts?”
This movie sure does. Gene Hackman is a GREAT villain without losing any of his signature gruff charm and stands toe to toe with Lee Marvin in this heartland thriller. Some WEIRD directorial choices and a hardly legal Sissy Spacek make this thriller a CUT above the rest (ugh). -
Imagine BULLHEAD with a sex trafficking B-plot and Gene Hackman as a beef kingpin named Mary Anne who speaks mostly in meat metaphors with Irish gangster Lee Marvin out for revenge and you have the recipe for this slab of Grade-A filet mignon. I'd say they don't make 'em like this anymore, but I'm not sure they ever made 'em like this in the first place.
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Watched at BUTplugged #23 on 16mm.
Started out excellent with highly creative opening credits in a butcher shop. Lee Marvin's introduction as Nick prepped me for a "Dirty Harry (1971)"-style anti-hero with dialogue cool enough to make Tarantino order himself some steak seasoned with spicy BBQ sauce. Oh yeah, I was so ready for this!
Nick Devlin is an enforcer for the Chicago crime syndicate hired to straighten things out concerning an outstanding debt by Kansas City slaughterhouse owner Mary Ann (Gene Hackman). Upon arrival Nick discovers Mary Ann's having a clandestine sex slave business on the side, which slowly changes the playing field. And sadly, I have to emphasize SLOWLY.
After a very strong first 20 minutes, they've decided…
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People are meat until they aren’t. Very funny tough crime thriller (a Kansas set cartoon version of Point Blank) which gets funnier the more violent and mean spirited its goons become. Robert Dillon script has more well-observed odd character detail than most Elmore Leonard novels and Michael Ritchie and his cast complement it with plenty of color as well. It can be too on the nose on spots, but I love how Marvin humanizing journey never gets too sentimental and his scenes with Spacek can keep an icky factor.
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SOME SPOILERS HERE BUT NOT MANY
So, the first film of this season of 1970s crime films starts with....well, this.
I do love it when you read a synopsis for a film and you think it sounds like something you will probably enjoy, and then you watch it and you realise, "Well, yes, it WAS about that - but they didn't mention the bit with the sausage!" In other words, Prime Cut really isn't just about Lee Marvin being sent to settle a debt with cattle rancher Gene Hackman on behalf of the Chicago Mob.
Prime Cut weaves its way through peculiar fêtes, strange restaurant scenes, and a completely baffling fight between Hackman and his ever-so-slightly…
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Meat is the metaphor, approved by Eisenstein and later seconded by Wiseman: Gangsters are thrown into the sausage grinder, nymphettes are doped up and kept in sow pens. Bucolic tyranny, barnyard capitalism. […] This enchantingly perverse fairy-tale builds toward a sunflower meadow out of Van Gogh, and the image of machismo reduced to a psychotically stabbing wiener.
—Fernando F. Croce
Unqualifiable. Prime Cut is a true original. Nothing like it. Ritchie’s Downhill Racer stumped my sensibilities and Cut achieves the same. You actively wonder what the hell you’re watching and what it all means. If anything.This fantastic write-up is what led me here, which I found so compelling that I bought the DVD blind.
Never underestimate the power of a great review.
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