The Killing Floor 1985

Photo is dated 1985.

The killing floor 1985. 20 imdb 5 6 1h 37min 18 fiction becomes fact as the agent of a horror novelist moves into a new apartment where spooky events besiege him in the killing floor. In 1985 it was invited to numerous festivals including cannes and received the sundance special jury award for drama. Photo front photo back. Marc blucas stars as the agent who receives videotapes of himself in the mail fears someone is watching him and ultimately falls apart as his paranoia gets the better of him.

Praised by the village voice as the most clear eyed account of union organizing on film the killing floor is a powerful historical drama set in the era of the great migration during world war one. Photo measures 10 x 8 25inches. But tension mounts between the blacks and whites and a violent confrontation erupts turning the streets of chicago into the ultimate killing floor bill duke s hard hitting docudrama produced for pbs s american playhouse mixes documentary footage with a dramatization of the events leading up to the riots to powerful effect. Directed by bill duke.

During world war i a poor black southerner travels north to chicago to get work in the city s slaughterhouses where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement. 1985 press photo the killing floor ernest rayford alfre woodard damien leake this is an original press photo. Black migration from the deep south at the time of world war i as seen through the eyes of frank custer leake a sharecropper who comes to the promised. With damien leake alfre woodard dennis farina ernest rayford.