The African Queen (1951)

Directed by

John Huston

Genre

drama film, romantic comedy

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 1,068 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During World War I, a rough boat captain and a prim missionary travel together down a river in Africa. They face dangerous rapids and German gunboats while slowly learning to tolerate and eventually love each other.

adventurousruggedwarmheartedsuspensefulromantichumorousclassic

What happens

The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. It 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. It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and has a music score by Allan Gray. The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor, his only Oscar) and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner, and Theodore Bikel. The African Queen was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, and the Library of Congress deemed it "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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