The Darktown Revue (1931)
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01/31/1931 (en)
Comedy, Music
18 Min
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Release01/31/1931
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ProductionMicheaux Picture Corporation
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Rotten tomato32%
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Original titleThe Darktown Revue
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Original languageen
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Production Cost
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0.00-
Overview
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.
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Director
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Alice B. Russell, Oscar Micheaux
Producer
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Casts
Casts : 6 , Crews : 6