The Darktown Revue 1931
3.20/10 by 4 users
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.
- Title: The Darktown Revue
- Year: 1931
- Genre: Comedy, Music
- Country: United States of America
- Studio: Micheaux Picture Corporation
- Director: Oscar Micheaux
- Cast: Amon Davis, Celeste Cole, Donald Heywood, Sara Martin, Tim Moore, Andrew Tribble
- Crew: Oscar Micheaux (Director), Oscar Micheaux (Writer), Oscar Micheaux (Producer), Alice B. Russell (Producer), Lester Lang (Director of Photography), Walter Strenge (Director of Photography)
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- Release: Jan 31, 1931
- Runtime: 18 minutes
- IMDb: 3.20 / 10 by 4 users
- Popularity: 1
- Budget: $0
- Revenue: $0
- Language: English
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