The African Queen
1951 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester. The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Bogart), saves prim, sober, and proper missionary Rose Sayer (Hepburn), "a crazy psalm-singing skinny old maid," after her brother (Morley) is assaulted by a German soldier at the beginning of World War I in German East Africa, and dies from insanity. After many quarrels, they survive a treacherous African river journey on a rattle-trap steamer, shoot the rapids, struggle with mosquitos and blood-sucking leeches, and set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage The Louisa, a German warship.
Direction John Huston
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Morley · Peter Bull · Theodore Bikel · Walter Gotell · Peter Swanwick · Richard Marner
Soundtrack Allan Gray
Screenplay James Agee · John Huston · C.S. Forester
Cinematography Jack Cardiff
Original title The African Queen
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