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Title:
The killing floor [DVD video]
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
[New York] : Film Movement, [2019?]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Abstract:
Tells the story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. Traces the racial and class conflicts in the slaughterhouses and management's efforts to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
General Note:
Title from container.
Based on an original story 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.
Performers:
Damien Leake, Alfre Woodward, Clarence Felder, Moses Gunn.
Technical Details:
DVD-R.
Language:
English
Added Corporate Author:
Audience:
No CHV rating available.
