The Killing Floor Film 1985

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 film 1985.

After landing a job at one of the. 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. 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. Marc blucas stars as the agent who receives videotapes of himself in the mail fears someone is watching him and ultimately falls apart as his paranoia gets the better of him.

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. A revelatory historical drama that offers a powerful template for social analysis in fiction.