Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Humphrey BogartCharlie Allnut
- Katharine HepburnRose Sayer
- Robert MorleyThe Brother
- Peter BullCaptain of Louisa
- Theodore BikelFirst Officer
- Walter GotellSecond Officer
- Peter SwanwickFirst Officer of Shona
- Richard MarnerSecond Officer of Shona
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
This was a movie that respected its audience and respected its genuine desire to be well and intelligently entertained. - 100
The Guardian
A ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
As charming as the C.S. Forester novel on which it is based, The African Queen is top flight entertainment, delightful, different, always interesting. It is filled with excitement and adventure and sparked by superlative performances from Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. - 100
Variety
An engrossing motion picture. Just offbeat enough in story, locale and star teaming of Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn to stimulate the imagination. It is a picture with an unassuming warmth and naturalness that can have a bright boxoffice chance - 100
TV Guide Magazine
A film that has everything--adventure, humor, spectacular photography and superb performances. - 90
The New York Times
A slick job of movie hoodwinking with a thoroughly implausible romance, set in a frame of wild adventure that is as whopping as its tale of off-beat love. And the main tone and character of it are in the area of the well-disguised spoof...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. - 88
Slant Magazine
Bogart slyly draws upon his past performances here—men of weary-eyed cynicism and faded idealism—to give Charlie’s rudderless existence an extra-textual charge. - 80
Empire
A perfect ensemble of cast, photography and screenplay are all subtly handled through Huston's direction, bringing out Bogart and Hepburn's performances beautifully.
