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    The Darktown Revue

    The Darktown Revue

    1931

    18:42

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    3.4/10 (5)

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    Genre

    Comedy
    Music

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Oscar Micheaux

    Writers

    Oscar Micheaux,

    Stars

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