The Darktown Revue

• Movies
• 1931-01-31
• EN
• Released
• 0h 18m
• US
• Comedy - Music

• 3.2
• 4

Production

Micheaux Picture Corporation

Storyline

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.