The Darktown Revue (movie)
- User score: 3.2
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Oscar Micheaux
- Production companies: Micheaux Picture Corporation
- Genre: Comedy, Music
- Release date: 1/31/1931
- Run time: 18 min.
Movie description
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.
