One of the most bizarre and original crime movies of its era is director Michael Ritchie's "Prime Cut", released in 1972. Gene Hackman plays a magnate who presides over a mid-western beef manufacturing empire that serves as a cover for his real purpose: kidnapping and trafficking teenage girls into the sex trade. Things heat up when Chicago gangster Lee Marvin and his team are sent by the mob to collect an overdue debt from Hackman. In the process, he encounters a young victim of Hackman's sex slave business, played by Sissy Spacek. The mayhem that follows is violent and brutal and Ritchie places it all in the sun-drenched cornfields that look like the benign setting of an Andrew Wyeth painting. People are beaten, gored, shot, stabbed and occasionally ground into sausages. It's pretty rough going but it's also quite witty and humorous and Marvin and Hackman make terrific antagonists. If you haven't seen it, click here to buy the Kino Lorber Blu-ray from Amazon.