The Darktown Revue
1931, English. Directed by Oscar Micheaux.
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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- 0h 18m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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The Darktown Revue is streaming on Criterion Channel in India.
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- Released
- 31 January 1931
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Oscar Micheaux
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The Darktown Revue runs 18 minutes (0h 18m).
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The Darktown Revue is streaming on Criterion Channel in India. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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If you liked The Darktown Revue, try Bo Burnham: Make Happy, Soul Men, A Song Is Born.
Who directed The Darktown Revue?
The Darktown Revue (1931) was directed by Oscar Micheaux and stars Amon Davis, Celeste Cole, Donald Heywood.