The Darktown Revue (1931)

Name: The Darktown Revue
Genre: Comedy, Music
Released: 2023-02-19
Duration: 18 min
Rating: 32
Cast: Amon Davis, Celeste Cole, Donald Heywood, Sara Martin, Tim Moore

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NR 18 minJan 31st, 1931Comedy, Music

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.

StarringAmon DavisCeleste ColeDonald Heywood

DirectorOscar Micheaux

WriterOscar Micheaux

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