Movie
The Darktown Revue
1931 · Comedy / Music · 18m 4.3
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.
- Director
- Oscar Micheaux
- Writer
- Oscar Micheaux
- Producers
- Oscar Micheaux,Alice B. Russell
