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The Darktown Revue

★ 3.4 (5 votes) | 1931 | 0h 18m
ComedyMusic
Overview

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.

Details
  • Status Released
  • Release Date January 31, 1931
  • Budget N/A
  • Revenue N/A
  • Production Micheaux Picture Corporation

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