Love For Sale

Love for SaleA Place as prosaic as Kansas City isn't often associated with movies, but the makers of Prime Cut chose it for two reasons: Long a center for meat packing, K.C. also shares a problem endemic to other American cities--mobsterism. In the film, Chicago gangland enforcer Nick Devlin (Lee Marvin) is sent to bring a K.C. clan into line. Led by Marion (Gene Hackman), the Mary Ann Meat Company is a front for a drug and white-slavery ring, and most of the "meat" sold by Marion is o...