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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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