![]() ![]() Their mail and supplies are delivered by a small steam launch named the African Queen, helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian mechanic Charlie Allnut, whose coarse behavior they stiffly tolerate. Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in September 1914. Release date: Decem(Fox Wilshire Theatre) Production company: Horizon Pictures, Romulus Films Ltdĭistributed by: United Artists (US), Independent Film Distributors (UK) Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley Screenplay by: John Huston, James Agee, Peter Viertel, John Collierīased on: The African Queen (novel) 1935 novel by C. Produced by: Sam Spiegel, John Woolf (uncredited) It gives a great insight to the making of the film. If you get a chance, read Katharine Hepburn’s book The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind. The color, the action, the pairing of Hepburn and Bogart, all those factors worked in favor of creating a masterpiece. Seventy years ago today, the film The African Queen premiered. ![]()
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