Killing Floor Movie Review 1985

During WWI, black sharecropper Frank Custer (Leake) travels to Chicago to get work in the stockyards and becomes a voice in the growing labor movement. The tensions in the factories lead to to bloody race riots of 1919.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 118 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War I, Labor & Unions, African America

Screenplay

Leslie Lee

Cast

Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Moses Gunn, Clarence Felder, Mary Alice

Director

Bill Duke

Music

Elizabeth Swados

Other

Peter J. D'Noto

Producer

Public Forum Productions, American Playhouse