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Movie Reviews of Prime Cut
Movie Review: Meaty Entertainment
Summary: 4 Stars
Though short of classic status, "Prime Cut" has alot to recommend it. Director Michael Ritchie has a sharp eye for Middle-America ambience and stages some good action set pieces. Lee Marvin is in classic tough guy form as Devlin, the bagman sent by the Chicago bosses to collect a debt from sleazy Mary Ann(Gene Hackman), whose Kansas City meat plant is a front for a more lucrative trade in white slavery and narcotics. Hackman, in what is in essence an extended cameo, makes a colorful impression here. Sissy Spacek, as a girl entrapped in Hackman's operation, isn't really given much to do in her film debut but is easy on the eyes in a fresh-faced kind of way. The film breezes by at an economical 86 minutes. Interesting casting here with Gregory Walcott("Plan 9 from Outer Space" infamy) as Hackman's brother and Eddie Egan(the real-life inspiration for Popeye Doyle of "The French Connection" fame) as a Chicago mob boss.Movie Review: Crazy Sunlit Noir
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this film when it came out in theaters way back when. I didn't remember much of it except the character Weinie's attempted stabbing of Nick (Lee Marvin) with...well, you gotta see it. Seeing it again makes me appreciate what a wacky, goofball take this is on film noir (only in bright sunlight). All along the way there are quirky touches that make this film more memorable than it should have been for me the first time I saw it. Just one thing as a for instance: the hitmen drive from Chicago to Kansas City and we see them just sitting in the back of the car for pretty much the whole drive while the music (by Lalo Schrifrin) is pulsing and insistant. The juxtaposition struck me funny after I thought about it. This is a 70's film definitely worth seeing. Also, as an aside, Sissy Spacek looks great naked. Enjoy!Movie Review: How to tell if Lee Marvin had been drinking.
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this movie and loved it for the sheer wierdness of seeing three academy award winning actors in a movie about meat grinding humans and drugged runaways sold as sex slaves. I noticed if Lee doesn't have much to say in a scene his upper lip hangs down on his face. You can see it for the first time in "The Killers" where he intentionally got totally drunk before his dying hitman character kills Ron Reagan. As his career progresses, his scenes where his character isn't doing much you can see the hanging upper lip. You can also see it The Professionals. In the opening scenes of this movie where the mob boss is laying down the mission to Lee it can be seen again.
Movie Review: American Gothic
Summary: 4 Stars
This thing is whack! Very edgy and ahead of its day of 1972. Lots of hand held camera work, weird angles and off-beat cutting. The opener of a man ground up in a hamburger machine gives you a clue to what's ahead. The acting really isn't much by today's standards. Lee Marvin maintains a macho poker face throughout. Hackman is a lot younger, but still seems like he's over 50. Sissy Spacek got a lot of notice for this film back in the day, but all she does is look wide-eyed most of the time. The violence is not as perfect as today's films, but this is beautifully photographed. How many mafia tales are set in Kansas City? None. See this. And it's less than 90 minutes long, too.Movie Review: Probably Ingrid Newkirk's favorite movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Lee Marvin as an enforcer for the Chicago Irish (?!) mob, Gene Hackman playing a character named Mary Ann, Sissy Spacek (before she started looking like a leprechaun) in a see-through dress, and a fight between a limousine and a wheat harvester- this is what people go to the movies for! OK, maybe just male people. Add a proto-feminist-vegan comparison of the exploitation of animals to the exploitation of women and a great performance by one of the cast members from Plan 9 From Outer Space and you have the most unjustly neglected film of the 70's. If possible, watch it on a bleary, worn-out full-screen VHS copy like I did for for the full sleazy effect.