The Darktown Revue

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1/31/1931Theatrical ()

The Darktown Revue(1931)

ComedyMusic
18 min.

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.

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Released1/31/1931

Origin & CountriesUS/en/United States of America

Production Co.Micheaux Picture Corporation

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