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August Free Movie - THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBEIileGQJ8 ^ | n/a | n/a

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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: drama; lovestory; movie
A true classic.
1 posted on 07/29/2023 10:20:09 AM PDT by V K Lee
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To: V K Lee

One of my Favorites.


2 posted on 07/29/2023 10:21:29 AM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: V K Lee
“Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.” — Rose Sayer
3 posted on 07/29/2023 10:30:01 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: V K Lee

I thought the trip was downriver!


4 posted on 07/29/2023 10:32:12 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

DOWN the river, yes.


5 posted on 07/29/2023 10:37:54 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: V K Lee

Captain of Louisa: By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William the Second I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.


6 posted on 07/29/2023 10:57:19 AM PDT by DFG
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To: V K Lee
I remember seeing this as a kid. Very cool.


Supposedly from a movie poster. Original pic couldn't be hot linked. It was in color.

7 posted on 07/29/2023 11:08:00 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: V K Lee

I’m convinced that Theo Bikel was a Red.


8 posted on 07/29/2023 11:13:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Bounced2X

Leaches! Leaches!


9 posted on 07/29/2023 11:13:39 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: AppyPappy

I’m convinced Humphrey Bogart was.


10 posted on 07/29/2023 11:15:12 AM PDT by Robwin ( )
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To: V K Lee

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...


11 posted on 07/29/2023 11:16:42 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: V K Lee

Great movie, and an interesting love story! I remember it!!!!


12 posted on 07/29/2023 11:28:36 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: V K Lee

Anything with Bogie and Hepburn is a classic by definition.


13 posted on 07/29/2023 11:30:07 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: V K Lee
Bogie and John Huston had got joined at the hip since the Maltese Falcon. It had been Huston's directorial debut and Bogart wasn't slow to pick up on the significance of such a strong rookie effort.

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.

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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.

14 posted on 07/29/2023 11:34:24 AM PDT by threefinger
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I'd love to post a quote but I don't want to spoil this classic for anyone in any way.

You're welcome =)

I got to see this 30+ years ago in college. Highly recommended.

15 posted on 07/29/2023 11:41:35 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: V K Lee
The real "Luisa" is still around...

Not currently operating, pending restoration work. The last of the Imperial German vessels.

16 posted on 07/29/2023 12:35:59 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: V K Lee

Probably Bogart’s best performance. Just classic.


17 posted on 07/29/2023 12:50:49 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: threefinger

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.


18 posted on 07/29/2023 12:54:12 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Manic_Episode
I'd love to post a quote but I don't want to spoil this classic for anyone in any way.

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.

19 posted on 07/29/2023 2:19:47 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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