The African Queen
When WWI erupts, Rose, a prim English missionary, flees German East Africa in a small boat with Charlie Allnut, a scruffy, gin-guzzling trader. And they both plot to use the boat to attack a German warship.
27 March 1921, Petrograd [now St. Petersburg], Russia
21 March 1912, London, England, UK
29 September 1922, Nottingham, England, UK
2 May 1924, Vienna, Austria
12 May 1907, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
20 December 1924, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies
26 May 1908, Semley, Wiltshire, England, UK
15 March 1924, Bonn, Germany
25 December 1899, New York City, New York, USA
March 03, 2011
What an inspired pairing! And to think the roles of Charlie Allnutt and Rose Sayer were nearly played by David Niven and Bette Davis.
February 23, 2011
It's probably cameraman Jack Cardiff who deserves kudos for turning this odd-couple romance into such a colourful escapade through east Africa.
February 09, 2011
Huston understands the majestic savagery of his surroundings well enough to let it exert some dramatic pressure on what is primarily a buoyant romantic comedy.
March 03, 2011
A ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.
June 28, 2007
The direction is often questionable, but the screenplay (by James Agee, John Collier, Huston, and Peter Viertel from C.S. Forester's novel) is a model of tight construction.
April 18, 2014
Humphrey Bogart finally won his Best Actor Oscar. It's an amusing performance, though it doesn't compare to his work in High Sierra, Casablanca, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, In a Lonely Place, The Caine Mutiny and a handful of other indelible turns.
June 24, 2006
Impossible to deny this film's entertainment value...
February 09, 2011
Five minutes in, and cowriter-director John Huston has already set the stage for something besides your typical '50s jungle-bwana boogie.
March 03, 2011
[A] grand, propulsive and plumly-restored slice of Technicolor derring-do.
June 28, 2007
It is a picture with an unassuming warmth and naturalness...
May 20, 2003
And so Mr. Huston merits credit for putting this fantastic tale on a level of sly, polite kidding and generally keeping it there, while going about the happy business of engineering excitement and visual thrills.
February 20, 2017
The African Queen is top flight entertainment, delightful, different, always interesting.
