Prime Cut is a 1972 American film produced by Joe Wizan and directed by Michael Ritchie, with a screenplay written by Robert Dillon. The movie stars Lee Marvin as a mob enforcer from Chicago sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss played by Gene Hackman. Sissy Spacek appears in her first credited on-screen role as a young orphan sold into prostitution. The movie was considered highly risqué for its time based on its violence, as well as its graphic depiction of female slavery, including a scene depicting naked young women in pens being auctioned like beef cattle. It is... also noted for its depiction of the beef slaughtering process, and a famous chase scene involving a combine in an open field. The movie opens with a credit sequence that follows a slaughterhouse process in from the unloading of the cattle to the making of sausages; however, inexplicably, a man's shoes drops onto the conveyor belt during the process. The woman operating the sausage machine is interrupted by Weenie , who has timed the machine using his watch. He stops the machine, wraps up a string of sausages, and marks the package with an address in Chicago.
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| Release date: | June 28, 1972 |
| Directed by: | Michael Ritchie |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 88 Minutes |
| Music by: | Lalo Schifrin |
| Cinematography: | Gene Polito |
| Genre: | Action, Thriller |