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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..
- Director: Michael Ritchie
- Genre:Action / Crime / Drama
- Runtime:87 minutes
Cast
Lee Marvin : Nick Devlin
Gene Hackman : Mary Ann
Angel Tompkins : Clarabelle
Gregory Walcott : Weenie
Sissy Spacek : Poppy
The movie opens with a credit sequence that follows a slaughterhouse process in from the unloading of the cattle to the making of sausages; however, inexplicably, a man’s shoes drops onto the conveyor belt during the process. The woman operating the sausage machine is interrupted by Weenie (Gregory Walcott), who has timed the machine using his watch. He stops the machine, wraps up a string of sausages, and marks the package with an address in Chicago.
It is later revealed that Weenie is the brother of Mary Ann (Gene Hackman), the crooked operator of the slaughterhouse in Kansas City, Kansas. 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 dollars from Mary Ann.
After the head of the Irish mob in Chicago receives the package, he contacts Nick Devlin (Lee Marvin), an enforcer with whom he has worked previously, in order to go to Kansas City to collect the debt. He tells Devlin about the sausages and that another enforcer sent to Kansas City was found floating in the Missouri River.
Devlin agrees to the fee of 50,000 dollars and asks for some additional muscle. He receives a driver and three other younger members of the Irish mob for help, including the young O’Brien, who makes Devlin meet his mother as he leaves Chicago.
It is later revealed that Devlin and Mary Ann have a shared history involving Mary Ann’s wife Clarabelle, who previously had an affair with Devlin.
Devlin and his men drive to Kansas City. They stop at a flop house, where Devlin finds Weenie in an upstairs room. He beats up Weenie and tell him to inform Mary Ann that he is in town to collect the debt. Read more
