starring Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek
directed by Michael Ritchie
88 minutes
Nick Devlin (Lee Marvin) leads four men from Chicago to Kansas City to recover half a million dollars that is owed to the Chicago mobster who hired Nick. Slaughterhouse owner Mary Ann (Gene Hackman), pushes back at Nick's heavy handed approach.
Thoughts
This was Sissy Spacek's first film. She played Poppy, a young woman that Nick saved from Mary Ann's sex slave business. Spacek was about 23 years old at the time but could have easily passed for five years younger.
I recall watching part of this movie back in the 1980's on TV (probably on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon) and being stunned that they didn't edit out all of the nudity. It wasn't front and center but it was clearly there.
This is a very visual film. The dialogue and the performances by Marvin, Hackman, Spacek, and the rest of the cast did not blow me away. The cinematography is another story. There are a number of long lingering shots that probably would not have been filmed or at least edited in quite the same way in a more modern film.
I'm not a fan of this film. It is very by the numbers. It is on the whole mediocre at best in my book. If it weren't for the way it was shot I wouldn't find anything redeeming about it.
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