The African Queen (1951)
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Synopsis:
In German East Africa on the outbreak of the Great War, a boozed-up sea dog and the sister of a murdered missionary make the perilous journey downriver to Lake Tanganyika to sink a German gunboat.
Review:
In many respects an all-time favourite adventure movie, filmed by Jack Cardiff in glorious Technicolor and at least in part on locations that brought genuine discomfort if not peril to the cast and crew. It has worn pretty well with the passage of time, except for the miniatures. The titular ship is the archetypal vessel with a character of its own, like Victoria in Northwest Frontier, and the sparring between misfit couple Bogart and Hepburn is all the more to be relished since you can guess they will end up in each other's arms but cannot imagine how. It's a two-hander all right, and Hepburn even resurrected the character in all but name for her part in the Rooster Cogburn sequel. Clint Eastwood would later dramatise Huston's off-camera exploits in White Hunter, Black Heart.
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Synopsis:
In German East Africa on the outbreak of the Great War, a boozed-up sea dog and the sister of a murdered missionary make the perilous journey downriver to Lake Tanganyika to sink a German gunboat.
Review:
In many respects an all-time favourite adventure movie, filmed by Jack Cardiff in glorious Technicolor and at least in part on locations that brought genuine discomfort if not peril to the cast and crew. It has worn pretty well with the passage of time, except for the miniatures. The titular ship is the archetypal vessel with a character of its own, like Victoria in Northwest Frontier, and the sparring between misfit couple Bogart and Hepburn is all the more to be relished since you can guess they will end up in each other's arms but cannot imagine how. It's a two-hander all right, and Hepburn even resurrected the character in all but name for her part in the Rooster Cogburn sequel. Clint Eastwood would later dramatise Huston's off-camera exploits in White Hunter, Black Heart.
Country: GB
Technical: col 103m
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
Synopsis:
In German East Africa on the outbreak of the Great War, a boozed-up sea dog and the sister of a murdered missionary make the perilous journey downriver to Lake Tanganyika to sink a German gunboat.
Review:
In many respects an all-time favourite adventure movie, filmed by Jack Cardiff in glorious Technicolor and at least in part on locations that brought genuine discomfort if not peril to the cast and crew. It has worn pretty well with the passage of time, except for the miniatures. The titular ship is the archetypal vessel with a character of its own, like Victoria in Northwest Frontier, and the sparring between misfit couple Bogart and Hepburn is all the more to be relished since you can guess they will end up in each other's arms but cannot imagine how. It's a two-hander all right, and Hepburn even resurrected the character in all but name for her part in the Rooster Cogburn sequel. Clint Eastwood would later dramatise Huston's off-camera exploits in White Hunter, Black Heart.