The Killing Floor Film

With marc blucas joel leffert shiri appleby jeffrey carlson.

The killing floor film.

Dead silence law and order follows constable briar a survivor from one of the first police teams sent in. A film movement classics release. The title refers to that special area in the chicago stockyards where the cattle are. 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.

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. On the last day of august everything changed. 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. Directed by gideon raff.

The killing floor digitally restored movie. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move. A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. The killing floor has a made for tv movie feel meaning it s not as glossy as a major studio film nor as gritty and an indie but duke finds power in the performances of his actors.

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 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. Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama. Directed by bill duke.

The world premiere for the killing floor was at 9 30 p m april 14 2007 at the malibu film festival. 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. There is a. The region 1 dvd rights have been acquired by thinkfilm with a direct to dvd release of january 8 2008.

With damien leake alfre woodard dennis farina ernest rayford.