The Darktown Revue
193118m4.3
Comedy, Music
- Runtime
- 18m
- Genre
- Comedy
- Origin
- United States of America
About
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.
Where to watch
Stream
Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.
Details
- Director
- Oscar Micheaux
- Writing
- Oscar Micheaux
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Jan 31, 1931
- Studio
- Micheaux Picture Corporation
Cast
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