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The Killing Floor was released on April 10, 1984.
The Killing Floor was directed by Bill Duke.
The Killing Floor has a runtime of 1h 58m.
The Killing Floor was produced by George Manasse.
Based on actual characters and events, the screenplay by Leslie Lee, from a story by producer Elsa Rassbach, follows the journey of Frank Custer (Damien Leake), a young black sharecropper from Mississippi who, in the aftermath of World War I, travels to Chicago for a job on the "killing floor" of a meatpacking plant and the promise of greater racial equity in the industrial North. There, he must navigate the seething ethnic and class conflicts-stoked by management and culminating in the Chicago race riot of 1919-as he attempts to unite his fellow workers in a fight for fair treatment.
The key characters in The Killing Floor are Frank Custer (Damien Leake), Mattie (Alfre Woodard), Supervisor (Dennis Farina).
The Killing Floor is a Drama, TV Movie, History film.
The Killing Floor has an audience rating of 7.6 out of 10.