The Killing Floor Film 1985

Movie info during world war i impoverished african american father frank custer damien leake leaves his southern family and heads to chicago in search of work.

The killing floor film 1985.

A revelatory historical drama that offers a powerful template for social analysis in fiction. Fiction becomes fact as the agent of a horror novelist moves into a new apartment where spooky events besiege him in the killing floor. After premiering on pbs american playhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews the killing floor was invited to cannes and later won the 1985 sundance film festival special jury award. The killing floor 1985 the labor film database 118m.

Director bill duke cast cynthia baker dennis farina and clarence felder synopsis imdb 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. But tension mounts between the blacks and whites and a violent confrontation erupts turning the streets of chicago into the ultimate killing floor bill duke s hard hitting docudrama produced for pbs s american playhouse mixes documentary footage with a dramatization of the events leading up to the riots to powerful effect.