(The Darktown Revue)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Comedy,

Music

Runtime:

18 minutes

Year:

1931

Directors:

Oscar Micheaux

Production companies:

Micheaux Picture Corporation

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