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The Darktown Revue

The Darktown Revue

  • 3.40
  • January 1931
  • 18 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.

  • Type:
    MOVIE
  • Country:
    US
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Music
  • Release:
    January 1931
  • Production:
    Micheaux Picture Corporation
  • Cast:
    Amon Davis, Celeste Cole, Donald Heywood, Sara Martin, Tim Moore, Andrew Tribble