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The Killing Floor
Directed by
Bill Duke
1984
1h 58m
Drama
,
TV Movie
91%
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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.
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Cast of The Killing Floor
Damien Leake
Frank Custer
Alfre Woodard
Mattie
Dennis Farina
Supervisor
Ernest Rayford
Thomas Joshua
Moses Gunn
Heavy Williams
Clarence Felder
Bremer
Mary Alice
Lilah Dean
Cynthia Baker
Emma
Gerry Becker
Meyer
Wanda Christine
Woman in Bar
Nathan Davis
Judge Alschuler
Henryk Derewenda
John Kikulski
Phillip East
Joe Hodges
Paul Eaton
John Spriggs
Jason Green
Frank Custer Jr.
Stephen McKinley Henderson
James Cheeks
Gene Janson
Dennis Lane
Richard Lavin
Ted Levine
Policeman
John Mahoney
Thomas Condon
Patrick Nugent
Jack Johnstone
James O'Reilly
John Fitzpatrick
Ward Ohrman
Secretary of Labor
Jeris Poindexter
Lonnie
Barbara Redlinski
Michalina Michora
Frank Rice
Dewitt Washington
Rob Riley
Nelson Morris
Vernon R. Schwartz
Jimmy O'Rourke
Miklos Simon
Michora
Connie Szerszen
Hysterical Woman
Wally Taylor
Robert Bedford
Letitia Toole
Mrs. Bethea
James Vallo
Army Man
Bill Blair
Dock Security Guard (uncredited)
Mitch Gora
Neighborhood Tough (uncredited)
Paula Slade
Mother (uncredited)
The Killing Floor Ratings & Reviews
Celluloid Dreams
Peter Canavese
A well-researched historical drama, with a Steinbeckian sense of economic and racial justice.
Common Sense Media
Brian Costello
Violence, language, racism in excellent historical drama.
Cambridge Day
Tom Meek
Racism, racial violence and ideological divides abound. Made for PBS' "American Playhouse," the film is a perfect double bill with Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" (1973)
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Powerful stuff.
Dig Boston
Jake Mulligan
An intrinsically American historical epic.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Chicago film history remains the richer for its existence and its recent digital restoration.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
A revelatory historical drama that offers a powerful template for social analysis in fiction.
Easy Reader (California)
Neely Swanson
There is clearly a story to tell, but Lee and Rassbach were unable to frame it in a meaningful and dramatic way.
Gay City News
Steve Erickson
The Killing Floor devotes careful attention to this country's history of unionization, using Custer as a stand-in for audience members who might not know much about the subject.
Battleship Pretension
David Bax
The Killing Floor is thrillingly watchable, profoundly stirring and perennially relevant.
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Sean Axmaker
[T]he drama is centered on Frank's journey from naïve country boy in the city to idealistic activist struggling to bridge the racial divide and caught somewhere between his black coworkers and the white union leadership.
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