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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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