The African Queen (1952)

07/01/1952Romance, Adventure, Drama1h 45m

Overview

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.

John Huston

Director

James Agee

Screenplay

Reviews

John Chard

A review by John Chard

10
Written by John Chard on March 15, 2019

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...

CinemaSerf

A review by CinemaSerf

8
Written by CinemaSerf on January 7, 2023

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 o...

Filipe Manuel Neto

A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

6
Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on October 22, 2023

**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 ...

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