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Director:
Michael Ritchie
Writer:
Robert Dillon (written by)
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Release Date:
15 September 1972 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Drama more
Plot:
A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Lee Marvin at his Best more

Cast

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Lee Marvin ... Nick Devlin

Gene Hackman ... Mary Ann
Angel Tompkins ... Clarabelle
Gregory Walcott ... Weenie

Sissy Spacek ... Poppy
Janit Baldwin ... Violet
William Morey ... Shay
Clint Ellison ... Delaney
Howard Platt ... Shaughnessy

Les Lannom ... O'Brien
Eddie Egan ... Jake
Therese Reinsch ... Jake's Girl
Bob Wilson ... Reaper Driver
Gordon Signer ... Brockman
Gladys Watson ... Milk Lady
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Additional Details

Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Calgary, Alberta, Canada more

Fun Stuff

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Sissy Spacek's feature film debut. more
Movie Connections:
References Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) more

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12 out of 20 people found the following comment useful:-
Lee Marvin at his Best, 3 January 2000

So what if 'Dog Day', made a decade later, repeats the threshing machine chase. It only underscores the success of the original, in which the 'teeth' of the threshing machine seem almost human. Watching them grind up the limo makes you feel almost sorry for the car. There are other scenes and themes I doubt that you will ever see in another movie: the packing house expose of what that meat you eat really goes through as it goes from the moo-cow to the sausage, for one. At least we don't see the guy actually made into the sausage the brother keeps eating!!

Hackman plays his evil best as an all-American who 'gives the public what they want' from meat to dope to virgins raised in an orphanage quite unlike the one in 'Cider House Rules'. Sissy Spacek does a good job in her first onscreen role, but come on!!! No one could be so stupid as to be unaware that they are wearing a completely transparent gown!! A few other holes in the film exist, but it is certainly a unique experience.

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