The Darktown Revue (1931)
PG-131/31/1931Comedy, Music0h 18m
34%
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Overview
With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the individual numbers. This quietly outrageous film begins with the high-toned Heywood Choir singing "Watermelon time" and concludes with Amon David playing a preacher using heavy blackface. Amon Davus was known as "the Back Biting Comedian, Par Excellence", and his sermon is one of Michaeux's many notable send-ups of the clergy.
Oscar Micheaux
Director
Alice B. Russell
Producer
Top Billed Cast
Amon Davis
Celeste Cole
Donald Heywood
Sara Martin
Tim Moore
Andrew Tribble
