Directed by bill duke.
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The killing floor is a 1984 american award winning made for television drama film directed by bill duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the chicago race riot of 1919 the film debuted on pbs via the american playhouse series on april 10 1984 and was produced by public forum productions.
In fact it isn t even past your 1984 film the killing floor resonates today.
Soon after the move he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment.
A film movement classics release.
1984 bill duke usa 118 min.
Directed by gideon raff.
With damien leake alfre woodard dennis farina ernest rayford.
He becomes prominent as a leader of fellow african americans in the union though many including his best friend view him as a sell out.
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But with donald trump and his movement.
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment.
Reviews what makes the killing floor so moving and absorbing is the way it succeeds in giving human scale and human impact to a moment in america s industrial history.
With damien leake alfre woodard moses gunn.
During world war i a poor black southerner travels north to chicago to get work in the city s slaughterhouses where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
The film was released on dvd in sweden by noble entertainment on march 14 2007.
The world premiere for the killing floor was at 9 30 p m april 14 2007 at the malibu film festival.
The killing floor 23 imdb 5 6 1h 37min 18 fiction becomes fact as the agent of a horror novelist moves into a new apartment where spooky events besiege him in the killing floor.
Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
The title refers to that special area in the chicago stockyards where the cattle are.
Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama.
What makes it memorable is its evocative re creation of chicago and the social milieu that existed there at the time of world war i.
The region 1 dvd rights have been acquired by thinkfilm with a direct to dvd release of january 8 2008.
