This one went right over everyone's head. Michael Ritchie, one of the best satirists in the film business took on the crime film genre with this oddball film.
The film is at first glance a gangster film with Chicago mobsters attempting to collect from a rival gang which just happens to be located in rural Missouri. It seems the hick gangsters haven't been paying the big city guys the money owed to them. In an attempt to get the money the Chicago mob has sent some of their best enforcers down to collect.
Unfortunately for the Chicago guys these hicks aren't exactly a bunch of pushovers. So the Chicago enforcers return to the big city as wieners. Yes they are processed at a meat plant in Kansas City and shipped back to the mob boss in Chicago as hot dogs.
The Chicago mob boss isn't going to take this lying down so he sends his top "torpedo" played by who else, Lee Marvin. Bring on the violence.
The under riding theme of the film seems to be about the deep corruption in America's heartland. The film is a mixture of county fairs, swap meets and farm boys running around with shotguns protecting their way of life even it it means killing a bunch of city slickers.
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