Supposedly from a movie poster. Original pic couldn't be hot linked. It was in color.
Posted on 07/29/2023 10:20:09 AM PDT by V K Lee
In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian
riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced
English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous
river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.
Starring :
Humphrey Bogart
Katharine Hepburn
Robert Morley
Peter Bull
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
One of my Favorites.
I thought the trip was downriver!
DOWN the river, yes.
Captain of Louisa: By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William the Second I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.
Supposedly from a movie poster. Original pic couldn't be hot linked. It was in color.
I’m convinced that Theo Bikel was a Red.
Leaches! Leaches!
I’m convinced Humphrey Bogart was.
One of the top five movies ever made...
My #1...
There is a really great video on YouTube about the “making” of this fantastic movie...
Great movie, and an interesting love story! I remember it!!!!
Anything with Bogie and Hepburn is a classic by definition.
Bogie and Huston did five films together, three and a half of which are classics. I think Bogart's Fred C Dobbs in Huston's "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was his greatest performance, a gradual descent into madness.
Bogart & Huston became drinking buddies, which in Bogart's world made Huston as close as a blood relative. They were about the only two in the cast and crew who didn't come down with malaria or dysentery during the filming of The African Queen, which Bogie attributed to he and Huston staying perpetually sloshed on gin and tonics.
There were two African Queens, and one of them ended up in the ownership of a scuba shop on Key Largo (ironic, since one of Bogart-Huston's classics was called after the island). For years it sat out of the water, right at dockside where anybody who wanted could have a look and take some snaps at no charge. Then they went full refurb on it and now are doing tourist cruises on it.
Before, during, and after the resto-mod.
Clint Eastwood did a film titled "White Hunter Black Heart" about how Huston's obsession with killing an elephant while they were on the Dark Continent played havoc with the filming of The Africa Queen. It's not such a great movie, and Gregory Peck's "The Macomber Affair" is a much better film about hunting African dangerous game, but it's an interesting insight into how Huston very nearly sabotaged an incredible work of film art for the sake of getting to kill an elephant before it was outlawed.
You're welcome =)
I got to see this 30+ years ago in college. Highly recommended.
Not currently operating, pending restoration work. The last of the Imperial German vessels.
Probably Bogart’s best performance. Just classic.
I think his performance in “Treasure” was excellent; and second only to his performance in “African Queen.” His relationship with John Houston brought out the best in both of them. IMHO, Bogart was the greatest American actor.
Umm, a little late for spoilers, isn't it?.
The movie has a different ending than the classic Forester novel. I like the movie ending better. Let's just say the Queen gets her licks in.
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