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Directed By
John Huston
Written By:
James Agee, John Huston, Peter Viertel, John Collier
Cast:
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel, Walter Gotell, Peter Swanwick, Richard Marner
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The African Queen (1951)
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Movie Review by Jesse
July 16th, 2007
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One of the Greatest Films Ever Made
What a great classic! You hear of these classics and you want to see them, but sometimes when you watch them they disappoint you (such as (for me) Ben-Hur), but The African Queen is certainly one of the best. It was clear that director John Huston was having a good time shooting this picture with two of the greatest stars of early Hollywood, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. From the famous C.S. Forester novel, James Agee brings the well-known story to the screen with such terrific humour and makes it perfectly suited for the two stars.
It's the beginning of World War I and Charlie Allnut is using his steamboat, The African Queen, to transport supplies to and from many villages in Eastern Africa. When Reverend Sayer dies in one of the villages that has been destroyed by Germans, Charlie agrees to take his sister, Rose (Hepburn), back to civilization. On their journey, Rose devises a plan to aid Britain in this war and use The African Queen as a torpedo to destroy one of the Germans' battleships.
A clever story with great performances from the two (and pretty much only) stars, this film will go down in cinema history as one of the best movies ever made. It's one of my new personal favourites, also.
The terrific character development and chemistry between Rose and Charlie is great to see and the many rapid scenes are very entertaining (even though you can very well distinguish real African footage from studio filmed footage).
Nothing more to say except this is a classic and should be seen by everyone (at least once). Highly recommended.
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