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The African Queen (1951)

Adventure | 105 minutes
3,31 548 votes

Genre: Adventure / Romance

Duration: 105 minuten

Country: United States / United Kingdom

Directed by: John Huston

Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and Robert Morley

IMDb score: 7,7 (88.271)

Releasedate: 7 January 1952

The African Queen plot

"The greatest adventure a man ever lived… with a woman!"

1914. Samuel Sawyer and his sister Rose lead a church in East Africa. During a German invasion, the natives are chased from their homes and Samuel is killed. Rose flees with Charlie Allnutt, an adventurer and drunk, on his boat the 'African Queen'. The two are polar opposites: she is a temperamental woman with strong convictions, he a loner who has long lost ideals and outward signs of civilization. When Rose proposes to sail down the dangerous Ulonga-Bora River where the German warship the 'Louisa' holds sway, Charlie thinks she's gone mad.

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W.V.

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What a wonderful means of getting to know opinions and the diversity of opinions. That makes you realize that there are so many different flavors, in other words what one finds horrible is another very good and everything in between. The only thing that bothers me is the fact that a lot of opinions are about the pace of the film, about the technical imperfections and the way of acting, if you have an opinion about that think about what year the film was made in that light you have to look at everything and then I believe that this is just a beautiful film, in all facets. Bogart and Hepburn play the sparks of the silver screen, in those years Hepburn was one of the few who gave sides to a fellow player in such a way, she would later play that role again with the opponent, just look at my avatar.

Many say that Bogart only acts soso in this film, I think his role is solid and maybe the Oscar was unjustified, but for African Queen he played Oscar-worthy roles in various films such as Casablanca, Maltese Falcon and Treasure of the Siera Madre, even later still in his role in the Caine mutiny, he puts on a very strong character so in my opinion he should have had one long ago.

Hepburn was on the one hand a certainty of quality for every director she worked with, but on the other hand she was a woman who knew very well what she wanted and wouldn't let anyone help her and that was for the directors in those days. in which Hollywood was dominated by men, sometimes very difficult, her role in this film, sublime in a word.

Fortunately, I have the film in my collection and every now and then, when I feel like an adventurous boat trip and a couple who spend the time kissing and who also sail through a beautiful landscape, I pick up African Queen.

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Because of the high IMDb scores I still started with the necessary expectations. Expectations, which, despite an occasionally amusing image, were never met for a moment.

The setting is beautiful, the fact that everything was shot on location too, and especially the momentum of the colonial war parallel to the First World War is an interesting fact. It is then the characters and the era of the 1950s that the film suffers the most from and makes it downright boring and corny for me. The very contrasting image between the ill-mannered scoundrel and the uber correct lady where religion and virtue and manners are the biggest stumbling blocks between the two. How the two get closer as the film progresses, he gets a little neater and she a little rougher and less correct is amusing and touching. I find the so-called romance very perfunctory.

Although The African Queen works towards a nice end, and the film and its character behavior should mainly be seen in the era, the whole never gets the level that I expect from a 7.8 IMDb score and it is a disappointment. However, the whole does not deserve a big fail.

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