The killing floor / Made In U.S.A. Productions, Inc. presents ; screenplay by Leslie Lee ; story by Elsa Rassbach ; producer, George Manasse ; director, Bill Duke.
Publisher:
Film Movement,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container. Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Farina, Ernest Rayford, Moses Gunn, Clarence Felder. Originally released as a motion picture in 1984. Bonus features: introduction by director ; Q&A ; The making of ; interviews.
Summary:
All Frank Custer wanted was a better life for himself and his family. What he got was a job and a place in history. Set in the early 1900s, this powerful true story retells the often brutal and violent beginning of the U.S. Labor Movement through the eyes of a Southern black sharecropper who finds work in a Chicago slaughter-house. After witnessing the inhumane conditions in the plant, he is slowly transformed into an activist for the fledgling interracial union.
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