The Darktown Revue

Release Date: 1931-01-31

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.

Rating: 3.4 / 10

Cast

Amon Davis

as

Celeste Cole

as

Donald Heywood

as

Sara Martin

as

Tim Moore

as