The Killing Floor Movie Review

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The killing floor movie review.

First thing you hear in the killing floor is voiceover narration delivered by a black man in the south circa september 1917 right. A very suspensful film full of vicious kllings and crazy twists. 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. Image from the killing floor courtesy film movement film review.

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. Without the multi million dollar budget. 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.

Parents need to know that the killing floor is a 1984 drama in which an african american man moves to chicago during world war i finds work in the stockyards and takes part in the labor movement. Jacob p super reviewer. Duke made the killing floor for pbs and it definitely has a tv movie feel and approach to narration. 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. Available on june 19 at the virtual cinema pages of the brattle theatre the cabot street cinema and other film institutions. The killing floor is about as close as you can come to the border between b movie and hollywood thriller. The killing floor directed by bill duke.

While it lacks an aesthetic sheen it has a very important point of view. Bill duke s directorial debut is ripe for the classroom tv wheel in late in the semester.