The Darktown Revue (1931)

Title: The Darktown Revue

Original Title: The Darktown Revue

Release Date: 1931-01-31

Status: Released

Rating: 3.2/10 (from 4 votes)

Language: EN

Genres: Comedy, Music

Production Companies: Micheaux Picture Corporation

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.