The Darktown Revue (1931)

ALL 01/31/1931 (en) Comedy, Music 18 Min
  • Release
    01/31/1931
  • Production
    Micheaux Picture Corporation
  • Rotten tomato
    32%
  • Original title
    The Darktown Revue
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 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.

  1. Oscar Micheaux

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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The Darktown Revue (1931) 18 Min

ALL 01/31/1931 (en)
Comedy, Music
  • Release 01/31/1931
  • Production
    Micheaux Picture Corporation
  • Original title The Darktown Revue
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Oscar Micheaux

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Alice B. Russell, Oscar Micheaux

    Producer