| The African Queen | |
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| 4 Nominations / 1 Win | |
| Year | 1951 |
| Director | John Huston |
| Writer | James Agee, John Huston |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn |
| 24th Academy Awards | |
The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel. It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and had a music score by Allan Gray. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel.
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Nominations
- Best Actor — Humphrey Bogart
- Best Actress — Katharine Hepburn
- Best Director — John Huston
- Best Screenplay — James Agee, John Huston
Plot[]
September 1914, news reaches the colony German Eastern Africa that its motherland is at war, so Reverend Samuel Sayer became a hostile foreigner; German imperial troops burn down his mission, driving him mad- shortly after his well-educated, sister Rose Sayer buries him and leaves by the only available transport, the river steamboat 'African Queen' of grumpy Charlie Allnut. She is determined to find a way to do their bit for the British war effort (and revenge her brother) and aims high as God is obviously on their side: construct their own equipment, a torpedo and the converted steamboat, to take out a huge German warship, the Louisa, which is hard to find on the giant lake but she presses till Charlie accepts to steam up the Ulana, about to brave a German fort, raging rapids, very bloodthirsty parasites and the endlessly branching stream which seems to go nowhere but impenetrable swamps. Despite fierce rows and moral antagonism between a bossy devout abstentionist and a free-spirited libertine drunk loner, the two bachelors grow closer to each-other as their quest continues on.
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