Prime Cut (1972)

Prime Cut is a 1972 crime thriller pitting a Chicago enforcer against a corrupt meatpacking kingpin in rural Kansas, mixing pulpy violence with a strange, sun-bleached atmosphere. Sissy Spacek makes her screen debut here, playing a young woman caught up in the story's seedier underbelly, and the film gives her a notably exposed, vulnerable turn early in her career. The archive holds a single nude scene clip from the film, capturing that raw introduction to an actress who'd go on to become one of the era's defining talents. Worth a look for genre fans and for anyone curious about where Spacek's career actually began.