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  1. 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 ...

  2. David Lamont, a successful literary agent in New York City who is known to be ruthless toward friends, foes, and clients alike, moves into his new penthouse apartment. There he meets his mysterious and beautiful neighbor, Audrey Lavine, who lives on the third floor. Shortly thereafter, he receives a visit from an investigator and a man who ...

  3. 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]

  4. Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee, based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and ...

  5. The Killing Floor: Directed by Gideon Raff. With Marc Blucas, Joel Leffert, Shiri Appleby, Jeffrey Carlson. A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment.

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    • Crime, Horror, Mystery
    • Gideon Raff
    • 2007-05-10
  6. 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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  8. PG 1984 1h 57m Drama. List. 92% Tomatometer 12 Reviews. 100% Popcornmeter 50+ Ratings. NEW. During World War I, impoverished African-American father Frank Custer (Damien Leake) leaves his Southern ...

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    • Drama
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