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Jun 26, 2020 · Bill Duke’s first feature, “The Killing Floor,” from 1984 (a digital release from Film Forum), displays an ingenious approach to the matter, bringing a straightforward story and a distinct ...
Jun 12, 2020 · June 12, 2020. Courtesy Film Movement Classics. “The Killing Floor,” the first feature directed by Bill Duke, from 1984, is a revelatory historical drama that offers a powerful template for ...
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Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 22, 2020. The Killing Floor devotes careful attention to this country's history of unionization, using Custer as a stand-in for audience members who might ...
Feb 22, 2021 · The Killing Floor knows all of this. It depicts the attempt to form an interracial union at a Chicago meatpacking plant in the years leading up to the race riots of 1919’s Red Summer. It depicts the attempt to form an interracial union at a Chicago meatpacking plant in the years leading up to the race riots of 1919’s Red Summer.
Release. April 10, 1984. (1984-04-10) The Killing Floor is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Bill Duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919. [1] The film debuted on PBS via the American ...
Although he was no stranger to directing TV by 1984, The Killing Floor takes Bill Duke's role as a future filmmaker to a whole new level and foreshadows his great work to come as he gives voice to people who are normally overlooked onscreen. From his commitment to the period and ability to transform what in someone else's hands might have been ...
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Parents need to know that The Killing Floor is a 1984 drama in which an African American man moves to Chicago during World War I, finds work in the stockyards, and takes part in the labor movement. As a movie set in the years during and after World War I, against a backdrop of labor tensions and the "Chicago Race Riot of 1919," racism is a central theme to the movie, and as such, the "N" word ...
