Film Movement Classics has announced that they will be releasing Bill Duke’s acclaimed directorial debut The Killing Floor on Blu-Ray, DVD & Digital on November 24, 2020. The historical drama stars Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Clarence Felder, Moses Gunn and Dennis Farina. This will release derived from a stunning new 4K restoration courtesy of UCLA will mark the first time the release has been available to own in North America.
Synopsis: Praised by The New Yorker as “a revelatory historical drama” and by The Village Voice as the most “clear-eyed account of union organizing on film,” THE KILLING FLOOR (1984/1985) is the first feature film directed by Bill Duke and explores a little-known true story of an African American migrant in his struggle to help build an interracial union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay by Obie Award-winner Leslie Lee is from an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach and is based on actual characters and events, tracing ethnic and class conflicts seething in the city’s giant slaughterhouses, when management efforts to divide the workforce fuel racial tensions that erupt in the deadly Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
- Introduction by director Bill Duke; Q&A with Damien Leake and Elsa Rassbach
- Pandemic Era Conversations with Damien Leake, Clarence Felder and Bill Duke
- The Making of The Killing Floor: Interview with producer-writer Elsa Rassbach
- Booklet with new essays by Professor James R. Barrett, University of Illinois and Professor Joe William Trotter, Jr., Carnegie Mellon University
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