Watch The Darktown Revue Free Online in CoPlay (1931)
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Watch The Darktown Revue Free Online in CoPlay (1931)
Release Date
31 Jan, 1931
Runtime
00:18: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
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.
Original Title
The Darktown Revue
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Actors
Amon Davis
Donald Heywood
Sara Martin
Tim Moore
Andrew Tribble
Crew
Oscar Micheaux
Alice B. Russell
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