Director : John Huston
Release Date : 20 February 1952 (USA)
Genre : Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut, Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer, Robert Morley as Rev. Samuel Sayer, Peter Bull as Captain of Louisa, Theodore Bikel as First Officer, Walter Gotell as Second Officer, Peter Swanwick as First Officer of Shona, Richard Marner as Second Officer of Shona
Plot : In Africa in the course of WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is encouraged by a strait-laced missionary to mode his boat to take on an opponent warship.
Run Time : 105 min
Country : UK | USA
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Language : English | German | Swahili
Filming Locations : Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK
Company : Horizon Pictures (II)
Trivia : In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked this for the #65 Greatest Movie of All Time.
Goofs : Revealing mistakes: When Charlie is discovered joining the substitute blade that he “made” onto the contravened propeller, you may perhaps envision that the blade he is by practice of is a faultless hold furthermore markedly was break up fancy the propeller he is repairing.
Tag Lines : The greatest adventure a man ever lived…with a woman!
Plot Summary : September 1914, news bulletin reaches the colony German Eastern Africa that its motherland is at war, as a result Reverend Samuel Sayer became a non receptive foreigner; German imperial troops burn drink his mission, forcing him mad- afterward beyond his well-educated, snooty sis Rose Sayer buries him along with foliage by the barely to troth had transport, the crummy river steamboat ‘African Queen’ of grumpy boorish compatriot Charlie Allnut. As if a prolonged tasking sail without any peace of mind weren’t dreadful ample since such unusual companions, she is indomitable to think of a method to do their speck since the British fight war (and settling of scores her brother) along with intentions expensive because God is for sure on their side: form their own equipment, a torpedo along with the changed steamboat, to eliminate a massive German warship, the Louisa, which is tough to think of on the large lake along with initially of everything to reach, inside essential because formidable an day trip because not everybody verified given that the not on time exciting explorer John Speakes, however she presses awaiting Charlie accepts to steam unsleeping the Ulana, on the lead of fearless a German fort, raging rapids, highly bloodthirsty parasites along with the for still and ever branching flow which appears to set out nowhere however impenetrable swamps… Despite mean productions along with experience antagonism between a bossy devout abstentionist along with a free-spirited libertine under the traumatize of alcohol loner, the two bachelors grow closer to each-other because their rummage around drags on…
At the rise of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is by habit of his archaic steamer, The African Queen, to ferry store to villages inside East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie sees view to eye to receive Sayers’ sister, Rose, encourage to civilization, taking over the Germans at the equal time.
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