Prime Cut
The From Below Microcinema will be showing Michael Ritchie’s *Prime Cut (1972) *on *Thursday, May 23th, at 8pm. *
Here is the link to reserve a seat. Doors will be at 7:50 and we’re starting the movie at 8:10!
THE START OF A NEW MONTHLY SUMMER SERIES:
MAIN STREET MALFEASANCE: Crime Films in Small Town USA
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Prime Cut is the hard-edged, mean-spirited portrait of Missouri meat-packing crime syndicates you didn’t know you wanted. Gene Hackman, chewing the gristle and every piece of scenery he can find, is Mary Anne, the head of the slaughterhouse operation, and Lee Marvin is the heavy sent down from the big bosses in Chicago to collect on money owed. Along the way, he discovers that Mary Anne may be selling more than one kind of flesh, and he finds himself in a much deeper quandary: how to help break up the human trafficking ring alongside Sissy Spacek, in her first credited role. A truly sordid New Hollywood cult classic, directed by one of the most underrated auteurs of the era.