The Killing Floor.

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THE KILLING FLOOR tells the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award winner Leslie Lee is from an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach and is based on actual characters and events, tracing ethnic and class conflicts seething in the city...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Film Movement (Firm) (Distributor)
Kanopy (Firm) (Distributor)
Other Authors: Duke, Bill (Film director)
Woodard, Alfred (Actor)
Felder, Clarence (Actor)
Leake, Damien (Actor)
Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993 (Actor)
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
In English
Published: [place of publication not identified] : Film Movement, 1984.
1984.
Series:Kanopy films.
Subjects:
Drama.
Motion pictures.
Feature films.
Genre:
Feature films.
Online Access:
Connect to: A Kanopy streaming video - MSU authorized users (kanopy)
Connect to: Cover Image - MSU authorized users
Physical Description:1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Format: Electronic Video
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THE KILLING FLOOR tells the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award winner Leslie Lee is from an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach and is based on actual characters and events, tracing ethnic and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses, when management efforts to divide the workforce fuel racial tensions that erupt in the deadly Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
Note:Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Participant or Performer:
Alfred Woodard, Clarence Felder, Damien Leake, Moses Gunn