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.
20 December 1924, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies
12 May 1907, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
15 March 1924, Bonn, Germany
29 September 1922, Nottingham, England, UK
25 December 1899, New York City, New York, USA
26 May 1908, Semley, Wiltshire, England, UK
27 March 1921, Petrograd [now St. Petersburg], Russia
2 May 1924, Vienna, Austria
21 March 1912, London, England, UK
March 03, 2011
[A] grand, propulsive and plumly-restored slice of Technicolor derring-do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 20, 2017
The African Queen is top flight entertainment, delightful, different, always interesting.
June 28, 2007
It is a picture with an unassuming warmth and naturalness...
March 03, 2011
A ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.
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.
June 24, 2006
Impossible to deny this film's entertainment value...
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.
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.
