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The Darktown Revue

Jan 31, 1931 · 18m
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Comedy
Music

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With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Micheaux 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 Davis playing a preacher using heavy blackface. Amon Davis was known as "the Back Biting Comedian, Par Excellence", and his sermon is one of Micheaux's many notable send-ups of the clergy.

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CAST

Amon Davis
Celeste Cole
Donald Heywood
Sara Martin
Tim Moore
Andrew Tribble
Directed by Oscar Micheaux

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Released
Original language
EN
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Micheaux Picture Corporation
Country
US
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