Humphrey Bogart (in an Oscar winning performance) and Katherine Hepburn star in this 1951 adventure-romance from director John Huston (The...
Humphrey Bogart (in an Oscar winning performance) and Katherine Hepburn star in this 1951 adventure-romance from director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon).
"Bogart plays the boozy riverboat captain in German east Africa who with the outbreak of war in 1914 grumpily agrees to help British national Miss Sayer (Hepburn) escape the enemy. Just as their downriver journey looks like being a metaphor for sexual initiation … it becomes an actual sexual initiation. The courage and lip-quivering vulnerability of Hepburn are tremendous." (The Guardian)
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96 %53 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
86 %33,606 reviewsAudience score rating
"It is a picture with an unassuming warmth and naturalness..."
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Variety
Variety"It's probably cameraman Jack Cardiff who deserves kudos for turning this odd-couple romance into such a colourful escapade through east Africa."
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Total Film
Total Film"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."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"A ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"This is a film where pretty much everyone is serving aces."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineThe African Queen | Details
Award winner- Winner for Best Actor (Bogart), Academy Awards 1952.
- Rating
- PG, for thematic elements, some violence and smoking
- Runtime
- 105
- Genre
- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- UK, USA
