The Killing Floor Movie Review

First thing you hear in the killing floor is voiceover narration delivered by a black man in the south circa september 1917 right.

The killing floor movie review.

The directorial debut of actor bill duke the killing floor is the true story of a black chicago labor leader whose efforts to help polish led labor unions integrate the city s stockyards during. While it lacks an aesthetic sheen it has a very important point of view. 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. Image from the killing floor courtesy film movement film review.

The killing floor is about as close as you can come to the border between b movie and hollywood thriller. That meaningful movements require all races to come together but the group in power white americans will forget that unity once. Available on june 19 at the virtual cinema pages of the brattle theatre the cabot street cinema and other film institutions. Audience reviews for the killing floor.

The killing floor directed by bill duke. Parents need to know that the killing floor is a 1984 drama in which an african american man moves to chicago during world war i finds work in the stockyards and takes part in the labor movement. Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama. I thought this film was great.

Bill duke s directorial debut is ripe for the classroom tv wheel in late in the semester. Us 1984 118 minutes. Without the multi million dollar budget. A very suspensful film full of vicious kllings and crazy twists.

Jacob p super reviewer. As a movie set in the years during and after world war i against a backdrop of labor tensions and the chicago race riot of 1919 racism is a central theme to the movie and as such the n word.