The Killing Floor Woodard

Starring damien leake alfre woodard denis farina clarence felder moses gunn and john mahoney 113 min.

The killing floor woodard. And funded by the national endowment for the humanities american playhouse foundations corporations and dozens of unions the killing floor premiered on american playhouse in 1984. Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama. Runs limited engagements the killing floor. Labor movement through the eyes of a southern black sharecropper who finds work in a chicago slaughterhouse.

The title refers to that special area in the chicago stockyards where the cattle are. The film was the pilot production for a proposed ten part pbs series on american labor history but financing from public television for the series could not be obtained. Labor movement a powerful personal drama marilyn preston chicago tribune. Produced by public forum productions ltd.

What he got was a job on the killing floor and a place in history. Damien leake alfre woodard dennis farina and moses gunn star in the film which won the sundance film festival special jury award. 1984 bill duke usa 118 min. The killing floor is part of our nation s history a fascinating and bloody episode in the history of the u s.

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. Fri nov 22nd 3.