The Killing Floor

As America entered the Great War, Mississippi sharecropper Frank Custer (Damien Leake) headed north to Chicago’s stockyards in order to do better for his family. As he embraced the recruitment of the union, he became a stalwart for the local...but that might not be enough to shield him from the postwar influx of returning workers and the brutal racial unrest to follow. Powerful, fact-inspired "American Playhouse" offering co-stars Alfre Woodard, Moses Gunn, Dennis Farina; Bill Duke directs. 118 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.