--- title: 'Prime Cut (1972)' type: 'film' director: 'Michael Ritchie' released: '1972-06-16' runtime_minutes: 88 genres: - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/prime-cut-1972' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069121/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Prime Cut (1972) 1972 · 88 min · Crime · United States ## Synopsis Prime Cut is a 1972 American action thriller crime film produced by Joe Wizan, directed by Michael Ritchie from a screenplay written by Robert Dillon, and starring Lee Marvin as Nick Devlin, a mob enforcer from the Chicago Irish Mob sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss played by Gene Hackman. The picture co-stars Sissy Spacek in her first credited on-screen role as Poppy, a young orphan being sold into prostitution as well as Angel Tompkins and Eddie Egan. ## Credits - **Director:** [Michael Ritchie](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-ritchie) - **Screenplay:** [Robert Dillon](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-dillon) - **Original Music Composer:** [Lalo Schifrin](https://cinepixo.com/people/lalo-schifrin) - **Producer:** [Joe Wizan](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-wizan) - **Director of Photography:** [Gene Polito](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-polito) ## Cast - [Les Lannom](https://cinepixo.com/people/les-lannom) - [Janit Baldwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/janit-baldwin) - [Gene Hackman](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-hackman) - [Sissy Spacek](https://cinepixo.com/people/sissy-spacek) - [Angel Tompkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/angel-tompkins) - [Lee Marvin](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-marvin) - [Bill Morey](https://cinepixo.com/people/bill-morey) - [Howard Platt](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-platt) - [Gregory Walcott](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregory-walcott) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/prime-cut-1972 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2071819); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.