The Darktown Revue

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.

Genre:

Comedy, Music

Duration:

18 min

Actor:

Amon Davis, Celeste Cole, Donald Heywood

Quality:

HD

Director:

Oscar Micheaux

Release:

1931

Country:

United States of America

IMDb:

4.3