The Darktown Revue (1931)

Directed by Oscar Micheaux18mComedy,Music

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.

Year

1931

Country

Language

English

Release date

31 January 1931

TMDB

4.3 (6)

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