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 a young orphan being sold into prostitution as well as Angel Tompkins[2] and Eddie Egan.

The particular sausages that Weenie was wrapping were made from the remains of an enforcer from the Chicago Irish Mob sent to Kansas City to collect $500,000 from Mary Ann.

After the head of the Irish Mob in Chicago receives the package, he contacts Nick Devlin, a WWII veteran and enforcer with whom he has worked previously, to go to Kansas City to collect the debt.

He gets a driver and three other younger members of the Irish Mob as help, including the young O'Brien, who makes Devlin meet his mother as he leaves Chicago.

The next day, Devlin and his men drive to the prairie and find Mary Ann in a barn, where he is entertaining guests at a white slave (prostitute) auction.

Devlin demands the money from Mary Ann, who tells him to come to the county fair the next day to get it and states that Chicago is "an old sow, begging for cream" that should be melted down.

Back at the hotel, she tells Devlin her history of growing up at an orphanage in Missouri with her close friend, Violet, before they were brought to the slave auction.

Unable to get past Mary Ann's men, he commandeers a truck hauling livestock and uses it to ram the gate and smash into the greenhouse on the farm, demolishing it.

He wrote, "Prime Cut is very different from the usual gangster movie; it's put together almost like a comic strip, with all of the good and bad things that implies..."[5]