Available on june 19 at the virtual cinema pages of the brattle theatre the cabot street cinema and other film institutions.
The killing floor movie review.
Jacob p super reviewer.
First thing you hear in the killing floor is voiceover narration delivered by a black man in the south circa september 1917 right.
The directorial debut of actor bill duke the killing floor is the true story of a black chicago labor leader whose efforts to help polish led labor unions integrate the city s stockyards during.
The title refers to that special area in the chicago stockyards where the cattle are.
Duke made the killing floor for pbs and it definitely has a tv movie feel and approach to narration.
Us 1984 118 minutes.
The killing floor is about as close as you can come to the border between b movie and hollywood thriller.
Image from the killing floor courtesy film movement film review.
If any of the cast or crew read this.
A very suspensful film full of vicious kllings and crazy twists.
I thought this film was great.
While it lacks an aesthetic sheen it has a very important point of view.
Black migration from the deep south at the time of world war i as seen through the eyes of frank custer leake a sharecropper who comes to the promised.
Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama.
Bill duke s directorial debut is ripe for the classroom tv wheel in late in the semester.
That meaningful movements require all races to come together but the group in power white americans will forget that unity once.
Audience reviews for the killing floor.
As a movie set in the years during and after world war i against a backdrop of labor tensions and the chicago race riot of 1919 racism is a central theme to the movie and as such the n word.
