The Darktown Revue 1931
3.2/10 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.
- Released: 1931-01-31
- Runtime: 18 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Music
- Stars: Amon Davis, Celeste Cole, Donald Heywood, Sara Martin, Tim Moore
- Director: Oscar Micheaux, Oscar Micheaux, Alice B. Russell, Oscar Micheaux, Walter Strenge
