Also a part of The Films of Gene Hackman
35mm IB Technicolor print!
Hollywood legends Lee Marvin (Point Blank, Monte Walsh) and Gene Hackman (Mississippi Burning, The Package) square off in one of the most explosive screen confrontations ever. Marvin is an underworld enforcer sent to Kansas City to collect money from Hackman, a mysterious mobster who has no intention of paying up. A meat packing plant fronts for Hackman's real business dealings: drugs, prostitution and human trafficking. Michael Ritchie's (The Candidate, Fletch) breakneck direction propels the action along with the speed of bullets. From a shoot-out at a country fair to the final cataclysmic showdown, Prime Cut is prime excitement! Punctuated with ruthless performances by Marvin and Hackman and stellar supporting ones by Angel Tompkins (The Don is Dead, Murphy’s Law), Gregory Walcott (Man of the East, The Eiger Sanction) and the great Sissy Spacek (Carrie, The River) in her acting debut. Prime Cut hits hard and cuts deep. (Kino Lorber)
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