The Killing Floor.
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...
Uniform Title: | Kanopy films.
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Language: | English |
Language and/or Writing System: |
In English |
Published: |
[place of publication not identified] :
Film Movement,
1984.
1984. |
Series: | Kanopy films.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (118 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
Format: | Electronic Video |
Summary: |
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. |
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Note: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
Participant or Performer: |
Alfred Woodard, Clarence Felder, Damien Leake, Moses Gunn |