The Darktown Revue

The Darktown Revue — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 31, 1931
• Runtime
• 18 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Music
• Director
• Oscar Micheaux

The Darktown Revue — Cast

Amon Davis

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Celeste Cole Donald Heywood Sara Martin Tim Moore Andrew Tribble