
The Darktown Revue
4.8 18 mm
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.
Year: 1931
Country: United States of America
Director: Oscar Micheaux
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