The Darktown Revue

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The Darktown Revue (1931)

Directed by Oscar Micheaux

Comedy, Music · 18m

With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Micheaux 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 Davis playing a preacher using heavy blackface. Amon Davis was known as "the Back Biting Comedian, Par Excellence", and his sermon is one of Micheaux's many notable send-ups of the clergy.

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Cast

Amon Davis
C
Celeste Cole Donald Heywood Sara Martin Tim Moore Andrew Tribble

Crew

Director
Oscar Micheaux
Writer
Oscar Micheaux
Director of Photography
Lester Lang, Walter Strenge
Producer
Alice B. Russell, Oscar Micheaux

Details

Release date
1931-01-31
Runtime
18m
Genres
Comedy, Music
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
Micheaux Picture Corporation