The African Queen (1951)

	Directed by: John Huston	COUNTRY UK/USA GENRE Adventure NORWEGIAN TITLE Afrikadronningen RUNNING TIME 105 minutes
	Produced by: Sam Spiegel
	Written by: John Huston James Agee Peter Viertel John Collier

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Charlie Allnut	Humphrey Bogart
Rose Sayer	Katharine Hepburn
Reverend Samuel Sayer	Robert Morley	-
Captain of Königin Luise	Peter Bull	-

Review

A pleasant, temperate romantic adventure about a missionary (Hepburn) and a steamboat captain (Bogart) who set out on a journey to sink a German gunboat by very provisional means in German East Africa at the outbreak of WWI. The combination of location and studio shots are executed quite nicely, and the picture still doesn't look half-bad even after all these years. It is only hampered by a slight but persistent aura of affectation running through it, despite the two stars' considerable – albeit completely asexual – chemistry. Luckily, the obvious shortcomings are not enough to ruin neither the fun or the rather thrilling ending. Bogart won the Best Actor Oscar for his work, inexplicably edging out Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire.