Prime Cut

Prime Cut is a 1972 American film produced by Joe Wizan and directed by Michael Ritchie, with a screenplay written by Robert Dillon. The movie stars Lee Marvin as a mob enforcer from Chicago sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss played by Gene Hackman. The female Lead, Golden Globe nominated actress, Angel Tompkins, plays the wife of Gene Hackman which was once romantically involved with Lee Marvin., Jack Sowards, author of "The Wrath of Khan" declared that one scene between Ms. Tompkins and Marvin is the "hottest" moment in a film with two actors wearing clothes . Sissy Spacek appears in her first credited on-screen role as a young orphan being sold into; she appears naked in a pen in one scene prostitution. The movie was considered highly risqué for its time based on its violence and the 'Hint' of a homosexual relationship between two brothers, "Mary Ann," played by Gene Hackman and his brother "Weenie." Further, its graphic depiction of female slavery, including a scene depicting naked young women in pens being auctioned like beef cattle.