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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 31, 1931

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Micheaux Picture Corporation

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0139144