Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut
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The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel.
The African Queen: Directed by John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull. In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.
German imperial troops burn down his mission; he is beaten and dies of fever. His well-educated, snobbish sister Rose Sayer buries him and leaves by the only available transport, the dilapidated river steamboat 'African Queen' of grumpy Charlie Allnut.
After religious spinster's (Katharine Hepburn) missionary brother is killed in WWI Africa, dissolute steamer captain (Humphrey Bogart) offers her safe passage.
- (52)
- Adventure
- PG
Shot on location in the Belgian Congo in deepest Africa, The African Queen was a true original and had everything one could want in a movie: romance, adventure, humor, drama, spectacular locations and two Hollywood icons in the leads.
As the First World War breaks out, a proud and pious missionary finds herself navigating a multitude of perils: the harsh African wilderness, dastardly German soldiers, and the sharp-tongued, gin-soaked steamboat captain who is her only ticket to safety.
The African Queen (1951) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
