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The Darktown Revue - Watch Movie

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.

Type:

Movie

Genre:

Comedy, Music,

Release Date:

Jan 31, 1931

Director:

Oscar Micheaux,

Writer:

Oscar Micheaux,

Cast:

Amon Davis, Celeste Cole, Donald Heywood, Sara Martin, Tim Moore, Andrew Tribble,