The Darktown Revue

Movie
TitleThe Darktown Revue
User score

3.2

Release dateJan 31, 1931
GenreComedy, Music
DirectorOscar Micheaux
Production countryUnited States of America
Production companiesMicheaux Picture Corporation
Run time18 min.

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.

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