The Darktown Revue
1931
Comedy / Music
The Darktown Revue
1931
Comedy / Music
80%
AUDIENCE
4.7/10
121
Plot summary
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
Tech specs
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 169.26 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
12 hr 18 min
Seeds 1
Comments 4
Not really sure about the " redeemable cultural value" of this film and it's necessity to be shared. The blackface is off-putting, and the concept seems overtly b1g0ted and r@c1st. Not planning on downloading this myself, and please be introspective and try to understand why you shouldn't either. Some stuff just belongs dead and buried in the past— this kind of tone-deaf and offensive film is one of those things.
@Kierkegaard with prohibition you had a government and some christian extremists telling you what to do. Without prohibition you have a government and some christian extremists telling you what to do, which is what we have today. What an stupid comment to make just cuz you can't stand a certain group of people and are now allowed to live you little white power trip
With prohibition and sober people, we have movies with blackface. Without prohibition, we have what we have today.
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