The Darktown Revue
1931 · 18 min
Comedy · Music
★ 4.3Criterion
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.
Crew
- Director Oscar Micheaux
- Writer Oscar Micheaux
- Director of Photography Lester Lang
- Director of Photography Walter Strenge
Crew
- Director — Oscar Micheaux
- Writer — Oscar Micheaux
- Director of Photography — Lester Lang
- Director of Photography — Walter Strenge
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