The Darktown Revue (1931)
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.
Director: Oscar Micheaux
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Amon Davis as |
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Celeste Cole as |
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Donald Heywood as |
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Sara Martin as |
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Tim Moore as |
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Andrew Tribble as |
| Directing | Oscar Micheaux | Director |
| Writing | Oscar Micheaux | Writer |
| Production | Oscar Micheaux | Producer |
| Production | Alice B. Russell | Producer |
| Camera | Lester Lang | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Walter Strenge | Director of Photography |
