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  • The Killing Floor (1984)
  • TV Movie | 118 min | Drama
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The Killing Floor (1984)
TV Movie | 118 min | Drama
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...See moreBased 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. Written by Criterion See less
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Director
Bill Duke
Writer
Leslie Lee
Producer
George Manasse
Composer
Elizabeth Swados (music by)
Editor
John Carter
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Apr 10, 1984 (United States)

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