Angel Tompkins, Clint Ellison, Gene Hackman

Chicago wise guy Nick (Lee Marvin) travels to Kansas City to investigate the mysterious disappearance of one of his acquaintances. There, he meets "Mary Ann" (Gene Hackman), a mob boss who's evil inca...( read more  read more... )rnate, and also happens upon a group of young women who have been drugged, stripped of their clothes and are being held hostage. One of them, Poppy (Sissy Spacek), wants payback … at Mary Ann's expense, of course. Michael Ritchie directs.

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R, 86 min.

Directed by: Michael Ritchie

Release Date: June 28, 1972

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DVD Release Date: June 14, 2005

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  • December 2, 2007
    This movie made me kinda sick. Nothing like women being sold like meat to make you feel all good inside.
  • March 15, 2007
    Combines and hot dogs, oh my!
  • November 4, 2009
    This is a strange but well made tough guy film. Characters have names like Poppy, Weenie, Mary-ann(Hackmans character!) and Clarabelle!? Lee Marvin is great in this. Bringing alot of depth to his character, he's not only a bad ass but he's got feelings too. Theres several funny s...( read more)cenes with Marvin, one in particular involves him tasting milk. They dont make leading men like him anymore!
    There is a real sleazy element involving a white slavery auction. And it is here that Sissy Spacek makes her acting debut...butt ass naked lying on a ground of hay in a cattle pen. Thats one hell of an entrance Coal Miners Daughter!
  • September 28, 2009
    Pretty good crime film from the 70's with Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman being outstanding as usual.
  • September 20, 2009
    Sissy Spacek made her film debut in this sleazy but energetic crime thriller about big-times gangsters and the slaughterhouse they use to convert their enemies into sausage is a highly entertaining gangster film with co-stars Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman.
    Michael Ritchie takes ic...( read more)onic actors like Marvin and Hackman, who only have to be visible to make an effect. He puts in lots of destruction of property, and neo-Nazi blond bad boys falling by the score. There's shotguns and submachine guns and carnivorous farm equipment and 18-wheel trucks and all sorts of unlikely weapons. And the usual movie dichotomy of country good, city bad is stood on its head, with agriculture fairs and cornfields and sunflower fields as dangerous to life and limb as you could hope for (paging Alfred Hitchcock!).
    And young Spacek looked so beautiful and hot in her nudity scenes. Whooo!
  • October 3, 2007
    Kansas City, meet Sissy Spacek. A unique cat-and-mouse game with Lee Marvin acting hard and Gene Hackman making quite the hateable villain. The taut shootouts and chases take place in some oddly colorful settings.
  • July 20, 2007
    If meat, boobies, gangsters, prostitute auctions, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and a nubile Sissy Spacek don't appeal to you than you are an asshole.

    Or a woman. An asshole or a woman.
  • June 25, 2007
    enjoyable,,loved-it,,
  • May 31, 2007
    classy 70's action speckled with gratuitous nudity. sissy spacek was pretty damn nice when not covered in blood. lee marvin is great in these pseudo-hero roles and gene hackman was a thoroughly convincing hillbilly farmer thug.
  • May 9, 2007
    strange but likeable thriller starring lee marvin and gene hackman. screen debut of sissy spacek.

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