1931
3.2 (4 votes)
0h 18m
Genres
Comedy
Music
Production Companies
Micheaux Picture Corporation
The Darktown Revue
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Oscar Micheaux
Director: Oscar Micheaux
Producer: Alice B. Russell, Oscar Micheaux
Director of Photography: Lester Lang, Walter Strenge
