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The Killing Floor (1984)
TV Movie | 118 min | Drama

The Killing Floor (1984)

TV Movie | 118 min | Drama

Based on actual characters and events, the screenplay by Leslie Lee, from a story by producer Elsa Rassbach, follows the journey of Frank Custer (Damien Leake), a young black sharecropper from Mississippi who, in the aftermath of World War...See moreBased on actual characters and events, the screenplay by Leslie Lee, from a story by producer Elsa Rassbach, follows the journey of Frank Custer (Damien Leake), a young black sharecropper from Mississippi who, in the aftermath of World War I, travels to Chicago for a job on the "killing floor" of a meatpacking plant and the promise of greater racial equity in the industrial North. There, he must navigate the seething ethnic and class conflicts-stoked by management and culminating in the Chicago race riot of 1919-as he attempts to unite his fellow workers in a fight for fair treatment. Written by Criterion See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Mary Alice Lilah Dean Lilah Dean See fewer	The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Dennis Farina Supervisor Supervisor See fewer	Get Shorty (1995)
Clarence Felder Bill Bremer Bill Bremer See fewer	Ruthless People (1986)
Moses Gunn Heavy Williams Heavy Williams See fewer	Shaft (1971)
Damien Leake Frank Custer (credit only) Frank Custer (credit only) See fewer	The Great Debaters (2007)
Patrick Nugent Jack Johnstone Jack Johnstone See fewer	The Untouchables (1993)
James O'Reilly John Fitzpatrick John Fitzpatrick See fewer	Crime Story (1986)
Ernest Rayford Thomas Joshua Thomas Joshua See fewer	Inside Man (2006)
Miklos Simon Dan Michora Dan Michora See fewer	Four Friends (1981)