

18 min
The Darktown Revue
Directed by Oscar Micheaux
Starring Amon Davis, Celeste Cole
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...
Release
Jan 31, 1931
Budget
Unknown
Gross
TBD
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.
Release
Jan 31, 1931
Budget
Unknown
Gross
TBD
18 min