The Darktown Revue
The Darktown Revue
Watch the darktown revue HDToday. 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.
- Genre: Comedy, Music
- Country: United States
- Director: Oscar Micheaux
- Cast: Amon Davis, Celeste Cole, Donald Heywood, Sara Martin, Tim Moore, Andrew Tribble,
