IMDb
4.7 /10
115 votes


Comedy · Music · 1931 · 18 min
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.
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IMDb
4.7 /10
115 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
The tomato isn't ripe
Metacritic took the day off
TMDB
4.3 /10
6 votes
Letterboxd
6.1 /10
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Weighted average
5.0/10