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The African Queen

7.4

Released January 07, 1952Runtime 1h 45min

The greatest adventure a man ever lived… with a woman!

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.

Genres

Romance

Adventure

Drama

Production Companies

United Artists

Independent Film Distributors

Romulus Films

Production Countries

United Kingdom

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $1,000,000
Revenue: $10,750,000
Profit/Loss: $9,750,000

Stream

Rent

Videos

Cast

Humphrey BogartCharlie Allnut

Katharine HepburnRose Sayer

Robert MorleyThe Brother

Peter BullCaptain of Louisa

Theodore BikelFirst Officer

Walter GotellSecond Officer

Peter SwanwickFirst Officer of Shona

Richard MarnerSecond Officer of Shona

Crew

John HustonDirector

Bill HerlihyThird Assistant Director

Guy HamiltonAssistant Director

Angela AllenContinuity

James AgeeScreenplay

John HustonScreenplay

C. S. ForesterNovel

Sam SpiegelProducer

John WoolfProducer

T.S. Lyndon-HaynesProduction Manager

Leigh AmanProduction Manager

Jack CardiffDirector of Photography

Cliff RichardsonSpecial Effects

Ralph KemplenEditor

Doris Langley MooreCostume Design

Wilfred ShingletonArt Direction

Connie De PinnaCostume Design

Norman del MarConductor

Kevin McCloryBoom Operator

Allan GrayOriginal Music Composer

John W. MitchellSound Recordist

Eric WoodSound Editor

George FrostMakeup Artist

Desmond DavisClapper Loader

Edward ScaifeSecond Unit Director of Photography

Eileen BatesHairstylist

Ted MooreCamera Operator

John HoesliAssistant Art Director

Vi MurrayWardrobe Master

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Reviews

Giants of the silver screen delivering one giant of a movie. WW1, East Africa, after her brother is killed by invading German troops, Rose Sayer is reliant on gruff steamboat captain, Charlie Allnut, to ferry her safely out of harms way and back to civilisation. Trouble is is that they are pol...

Saw this at the BFI in London recently and it looks superb on a big screen. Essentially a two-hander with screen legends Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn who have to escape the approaching WWI German East African forces by sailing down a river on a boat held together by chewing gum and a lot o...

by Filipe Manuel Neto

**A film too American in an Africa still dominated by Europeans.** The film is set in colonial Africa during the First World War, near the Lake Tanganyika area, where the borders of the colonies of Rhodesia (British), Belgian Congo and Tanganyika (German) were formed. It all begins with the Germ...