The killing floor / an Elsa Rassbach production ; adaptation by Ron Milner ; screenplay by Leslie Lee ; producer, George Manasse ; directed by Bill Duke ; a Public Forum Productions, Ltd. production in association with KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth.
Publisher:
Film Movement,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : illustrations ; 14 cm)
Damien Leake, Alfre Woodward, Clarence Felder, Moses Gunn, Dennis Farina, Ernest Rayford. Title from disc label. Based on a true story, as told by Elsa Rassbach. Originally released as a motion picture in 1984. "The killing floor (1985) has been preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive as part of the Sundance Institute Collection"--Opening credits. Bonus features: introduction by Bill Duke ; Q&A with Damien Leake and Elsa Rassbach ; The making of The killing floor: pandemic era conversations ; interview with Elsa Rassbach ; new essays by James R. Barrett and Joe William Trotter, Jr.
Summary:
Frank Custer is an African-American migrant worker who struggles to help build an interracial union in the Chicago Stockyards. When management efforts to divide the workforce put strain on the racial tensions, the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 is the result.
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