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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. Now available on DVD and blu-ray: https://www.filmmovement.com/product/the-killing-floorDuring World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago...

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  3. 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 ...

  4. 'The Killing Floor', based on the book 'The Girl on the Stairs' by author Barry Ernest, is the very true story about a young woman named Victoria Adams, whos...

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  5. On DVD January 8, 2008Horror book agent David Lamont moves into a lavish penthouse apartment to celebrate his new-found success. But as he settles in, myster...

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  6. Rassbach developed the project together with a cohort of historians and screenwriters, though The Killing Floor was the only film ever made in the series. [11] To recognize the 100th anniversary of the Chicago race riots in 2019, the film underwent 4K DCP digital restoration by the University of California-Los Angeles Film & Television Archive.

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  8. 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 ...

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