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.
Year: 1931
Studio: Micheaux Picture Corporation
Director: Oscar Micheaux
Cast: Amon Davis, Celeste Cole, Donald Heywood, Sara Martin, Tim Moore, Andrew Tribble
Crew: Oscar Micheaux (Director), Oscar Micheaux (Writer), Alice B. Russell (Producer), Oscar Micheaux (Producer), Walter Strenge (Director of Photography), Lester Lang (Director of Photography)
Runtime: 18 minutes
Release: Jan 31, 1931
IMDb: 3.20/10 by 4 users
Popularity: 0
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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