The Darktown Revue
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Synopsis
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.
Details
- Oscar Micheaux
- January 31, 1931
- Released
- United States of America
- Micheaux Picture Corporation
- 18m
Where to watch
Criterion Channel
