Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama.
The killing floor movie review.
Bill duke s directorial debut is ripe for the classroom tv wheel in late in the semester.
That meaningful movements require all races to come together but the group in power white americans will forget that unity once.
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.
Image from the killing floor courtesy film movement film review.
The killing floor directed by bill duke.
Us 1984 118 minutes.
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.
Duke made the killing floor for pbs and it definitely has a tv movie feel and approach to narration.
The killing floor is about as close as you can come to the border between b movie and hollywood thriller.
Available on june 19 at the virtual cinema pages of the brattle theatre the cabot street cinema and other film institutions.
The title refers to that special area in the chicago stockyards where the cattle are.
A very suspensful film full of vicious kllings and crazy twists.
If any of the cast or crew read this.
Without the multi million dollar budget.
Jacob p super reviewer.
While it lacks an aesthetic sheen it has a very important point of view.
I thought this film was great.
First thing you hear in the killing floor is voiceover narration delivered by a black man in the south circa september 1917 right.
