Discussion of "The African Queen"
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The African Queen (1951) is a British-American adventure film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogard, Katharine Hepburn, and Robert Morley. The film is based on the novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The color cinematography is by Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948)).
Rose Sayer (Hepburn) and her brother Reverend Samuel Sayer (Morley) are British missionaries in German East Africa in 1914. When war breaks out between Britain and Germany, the mission is threatened, as are the lives of the villagers. Charlie Allnut (Bogart), a gruff Canadian mechanic who delivers the mail and supplies to the mission warns Rose and Samuel that they aren’t safe and need to abandon the mission to save their lives.
When Samuel dies and the village is burned to the ground, Rose escapes with Charlie on his small steamboat named the African Queen. The two opposites form an unlikely partnership to save their lives and attack the Germans.
To learn more about the film’s cast and crew, click on the link to my blog post below.
https://classicmovieman.blogspot.com/2022/08/humphrey-bogard-and-katharine-hepburn.html
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Discussion of "The African Queen"