The Darktown Revue
The Darktown Revue
3.4
|January 31, 1931|0h 18m|Movie
ComedyMusic

Storyline

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.

Top Cast

Amon Davis

Amon Davis

Celeste Cole

Celeste Cole

Donald Heywood

Donald Heywood

Sara Martin

Sara Martin

Tim Moore

Tim Moore

Andrew Tribble

Andrew Tribble

Director

Oscar Micheaux

Writers

Oscar Micheaux

Status

Released

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