It's hard to believe that Michael Ritchie directed this movie the same year he directed The Candidate. The movie starts out in Chicago with Lee Marvin as a top hit-man who is sent down to Kansas City to get $500,000 from Gene Hackman. Hackman's character is named Mary Ann and he left Chicago so he could be top man in Kansas. Hackman runs his business with his brother and they killed the guys who were sent to collect the money before Marvin was sent out. Sissy Spacek in her first movie, is a girl who was basically kidnapped and doped up and now used as a whore for Hackman. Marvin takes Spacek from Hackman and Hackman tries to kill Marvin. It's a pretty good movie and Gene Hackman is a great villain.
