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The African Queen
US theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Huston
Screenplay byJohn Huston
James Agee
Peter Viertel
John Collier
Based onThe African Queen
1935 novel
byC. S. Forester
Produced bySam Spiegel
John Woolf(uncredited)
StarringHumphrey Bogart
Katharine Hepburn
Robert Morley
CinematographyJack Cardiff
Edited byRalph Kemplen
Music byAllan Gray
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
Running time
105 minutes
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
German
Swahili
Budget$1 million[3]
Box office$10.75 million[4]

The African Queenis a 1951adventure filmadapted from the 1935novel of the same namebyC. S. Forester.[5]The film was directed byJohn Hustonand produced bySam SpiegelandJohn Woolf.[6]ThescreenplaywasadaptedbyJames Agee,John Huston,John CollierandPeter Viertel.It was photographed inTechnicolorbyJack Cardiffand has a music score byAllan Gray.The film starsHumphrey Bogart(who won theAcademy Award for Best Actor,his only Oscar) andKatharine HepburnwithRobert Morley,Peter Bull,Walter Gotell,Richard MarnerandTheodore Bikel.[7]

The African Queenwas selected for preservation in the United StatesNational Film Registryin 1994, and theLibrary of Congressdeemed it "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."[8][9]

Plot

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Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are English MethodistmissionariesinGerman East Africain August 1914. Their post and supplies are delivered by a smallsteamboatnamed theAfrican Queen,helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian mechanic Charlie Allnut, whose coarse behavior they stiffly tolerate.

When Charlie warns the Sayers that war has broken out betweenGermanyandBritain,they choose to remain in Kungdu, only to witness Germancolonial troopsburn down the village and herd the villagers away to be pressed into service. When Samuel protests, he is struck by a soldier and soon becomes delirious withfever,dying shortly afterward. Charlie helps Rose bury her brother and they escape in theAfrican Queen.

Charlie mentions to Rose that the British are unable to attack the Germans because of the presence of a largegunboat,theKönigin Luise,patrolling a large lake downriver. Rose comes up with a plan to convert theAfrican Queeninto atorpedo boatand sink theKönigin Luise.After some persuasion, Charlie goes along with the plan.

Charlie encourages Rose to navigate the river by rudder while he tends the engine, and she is emboldened after they pass the first set of rapids with minimal flooding in the boat. When they pass the German fortress, the soldiers begin shooting at them, damaging the boiler. Charlie manages to reattach a pressure hose just as they are about to enter the second set of rapids. The boat rolls and pitches as it goes down the rapids, leading to more severe flooding on the deck. While celebrating their success, Charlie and Rose find themselves in an embrace and kiss. The third set of rapids damages the boat's propeller shaft. They rig up a primitive forge on shore and Charlie straightens the shaft and welds a new blade onto the propeller, allowing the two to set off again.

All appears lost when the boat becomes mired in the mud and densereedsnear the mouth of the river. With no supplies left and short ofpotable water,Rose and a feverish Charlie pass out, both accepting that they will soon die. Rose says a quiet prayer. As they sleep, torrential rains raise the river's level and float theAfrican Queeninto the lake.

Over the next two days, Charlie and Rose prepare for their attack. TheKönigin Luisereturns and Charlie and Rose steam theAfrican Queenout onto the lake in darkness, intending to set her on a collision course. A strong storm strikes, causing water to pour into theAfrican Queenthrough the torpedo holes. Eventually the boat capsizes, throwing Charlie and Rose into the water. Charlie loses sight of Rose in the storm.

Charlie is captured and taken aboard theKönigin Luise,where he is interrogated by German officers. Believing that Rose has drowned, he makes no attempt to defend himself against accusations ofspyingand the German captain sentences him to death byhanging.Rose is brought aboard the ship just after Charlie's sentence is pronounced. The captain questions her, and Rose proudly confesses the plot to sink theKönigin Luise,deciding that they have nothing to lose. The captain sentences her to be executed with Charlie, both as British spies. Charlie asks the German captain to marry them before they are executed. The captain agrees, and after conducting the briefest of marriage ceremonies, is about to carry out the execution when theKönigin Luiseis rocked by a series of explosions, quicklycapsizing.The ship has struck the overturned submerged hull of theAfrican Queenand detonated the torpedoes. The newly married couple is able to escape the sinking ship and swim to safety together.

Cast

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Production

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Hepburn and Bogart in a publicity still for the film.

Productioncensorsobjected to several aspects of the original script, such as the two unmarried characters cohabiting the boat (as in the book), and some changes were made before the film was completed.[11]Another change followed the casting of Bogart; his character's lines in the original screenplay were rendered with a thickCockneydialect, but the script had to be completely rewritten because he was unwilling to attempt the accent. The rewrite made the character Canadian.

The film was partially financed byJohn and James Woolfof Romulus Films, a British company.Michael Balcon,an advisor to theNational Film Finance Corporation,advised the NFFC to refuse a loan to the Woolfs unless the film starred his formerEaling StudiosactorsJohn McCallumandGoogie Withersrather than Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, whom the Woolfs wanted. The Woolfs persuaded NFFC chairmanLord Reithto overrule Balcon, and the film went ahead.[12]The Woolfs provided £250,000 and were so pleased with the completed film that they convinced John Huston to direct their next picture,Moulin Rouge(1952).[13]

Much of the film was shot on location inUgandaand theCongoin Africa. This was rather novel for the time, especially for aTechnicolorpicture that used large, cumbersome "Three-Strip" cameras. The cast and crew endured sickness and spartan living conditions during their timeon location.In the early scene in which Hepburn plays an organ in the church, a bucket was placed off-camera in which she could vomit between takes because she was sick. Bogart later bragged that he and Huston were the only members of the cast and crew who escaped illness, which he credited to having drunkwhiskeyon location rather than thelocal water.[14][15]

Film trailer

About half of the film was shot in theUK.The scenes in which Bogart and Hepburn are seen in the water were all shot in studio tanks atWorton Hall StudiosinIsleworth,near London. These scenes were considered too dangerous to shoot in Africa. All of the foreground plates for the process shots were also filmed in studio.[16]A myth has grown that the scenes in the reed-filled riverbank were filmed inDalyan, Turkey,[17]but in her book about the filming, Hepburn stated: "We were about to head... back toEntebbebut John [Huston] wanted to get shots of Bogie and me in the miles of high reeds before we come out into the lake... ". The sequence was shot on location in Africa and at the London studios. The shots of the German-occupied Fort Shona were all filmed at Worton Hall, where a fortresssetwas constructed from tubularscaffoldingand covered withplaster.[18]

Scenes on the boat were filmed using a large raft with amockupof the boat on top. Sections of the boat set could be removed to make room for the large Technicolor camera. This proved hazardous on one occasion when the boat's boiler, a heavy copper replica, almost fell on Hepburn. It was not secured to the deck because it also had to be moved to accommodate the camera. The small steamboat used to depict theAfrican Queenwas built in 1912 in Britain for service in Africa. At one time it was owned by actorFess Parker.[19]The boat was restored in April 2012 and is now on display as atourist attractioninKey Largo,Florida.[20][21]

Because of the dangers involved with shooting the rapids scenes, a small-scale model was used in the studio tank in London. The vessel used to portray the German gunboatKönigin Luisewas the steamtugBuganda,owned and operated onLake Victoriaby theEast African Railways and Harbours Corporation.Although fictional, theKönigin Luisewas inspired by the World War I vesselGraf Goetzen(also known asGraf von Goetzen),[22]which operated onLake Tanganyikauntil she was scuttled in 1916 during theBattle for Lake Tanganyika.The British refloated theGraf Goetzenin 1924 and placed her in service on Lake Tanganyika in 1927 as thepassenger ferryMVLiembaand she is still operating with continuing maintenance agreed in 2023.[23]

The nameKönigin Luisewas taken from a German steamferrySSKönigin Luise (1913)that operated fromHamburgbefore being taken over by theKaiserliche Marineon the outbreak of World War I. She was used as an auxiliaryminelayeroff Harwich before being sunk on 5 August 1914 by the cruiserHMSAmphion.[24]

A persistent rumor holds that London'spopulationofferalring-necked parakeetsoriginated from birds that escaped or were released during filming ofThe African Queen.[25]

Premiere

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The African Queenopened on December 26, 1951, at theFox Wilshire TheatreinBeverly Hills[2]in time to qualify for the24th Academy Awards.The film opened inNew York Cityon February 20, 1952, at theCapitol Theatre.[26]

Reception and box office

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Contemporary critical reviews were mostly positive. Edwin Schallert of theLos Angeles Timeswrote that the film "should impress for its novelty both in casting and scenically," and found the ending "rather contrived and even incredible, but melodramatic enough, with almost a western accent, to be popularly effective."[27]Bosley CrowtherofThe New York Timescalled the film "a slick job of movie hoodwinking with a thoroughly implausible romance, set in a frame of wild adventure that is as whopping as its tale of off-beat love... This is not noted with disfavor." Crowther added that "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."[26]

VarietycalledThe African Queen"an engrossing motion picture... Performance-wise, Bogart has never been seen to better advantage. Nor has he ever had a more knowing, talented film partner than Miss Hepburn."[28]John McCartenofThe New Yorkerdeclared that "Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart come up with a couple of remarkable performances, and it's fortunate that they do, for the movie concentrates on them so single-mindedly that any conspicuous uncertainty in their acting would have left the whole thing high and dry."[29]Richard L. Coewrote inThe Washington Postthat "Huston has tried a risky trick and most of the time pulls it off in delicious style. And from both his stars he has drawn performances which have rightly been nominated for those Academy Awards on the [20th]."[30]

Harrison's Reportsprinted a negative review, writing that the film "has its moments of comedy and excitement, but on the whole the dialogue is childish, the action silly, and the story bereft of human appeal. The characters act as childishly as they talk, and discriminating picture-goers will, no doubt, laugh at them. There is nothing romantic about either Katharine Hepburn or Humphrey Bogart, for both look bedraggled throughout."[31]The Monthly Film Bulletinwas also negative, writing: "Huston seems to have been aiming at a measured, quiet, almost digressive tempo, but the material does not support it, and would have benefited by the incisiveness his previous films have shown. In spite of Hepburn's wonderful playing, and some engaging scenes, the film must be accounted a misfire."[32]

The film earned an estimated £256,267 at UK cinemas in 1952,[33]making it the 11th-most-popular film of the year.[34]It earned an estimated $4 million in North Americantheatrical rentalsand $6 million worldwide.[35][36]

On review aggregation siteRotten Tomatoesthe film has a 96% rating based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 8.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Perfectly cast, smartly written, and beautifully filmed,The African Queenremains thrilling, funny, and effortlessly absorbing even after more than half a century's worth of adventure movies borrowing liberally from its creative DNA. "[37]OnMetacriticit has a score of 91% based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[38]

Differences from the novel

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In 1935, when the novellaThe African Queenby C. S. Forester was published, many British people believed that World War I was a grievous mistake that could have been avoided. In the novella, the Germans are the antagonists, not the villains, and are depicted as noble and chivalrous opponents of the British, who are likewise equally noble and honorable.[39]The overall message of the novella was that the war was a tragedy in which decent people killed one another for unfathomable reasons and that both sides suffered equally.[39]The British historian Antony Barker wrote in the book there is a strong sense of the shared suffering of the European characters in Africa during the war including the Germans who are presented as having only a "limited responsibility" for the war.[40]By contrast, when the film version ofThe African Queencame out in 1951, memories of the Second World War were still fresh and the German characters were far more villainous and disagreeable than in the novella.[41]Unlike the memory of the First World War, the Second World War was remembered as a crusade against evil, which influenced the script ofThe African Queen.[41]In the novella, the Germans capture Rose and Charlie, but release them in a magnanimous gesture, unaware of the failed plot.[39]Likewise, in the film they capture Rose and Charlie, but are on the verge of hanging them when theKönigin Luiseis sunk by the wreck ofThe African Queen.[41]

In the novella, Charlie and Rose fail in their attempt to sink theKönigin Luiseas the message in the book is: "What appears to be an impossible mission for a private citizen is shown to be just that--it remains a job best left for the professionals".[39]TheKönigin Luiseis instead sunk in a lake battle by a Royal Navy gunboat as Rose and Charlie watch from the shore.[39]The film presented the efforts of Charlie and Rose in a more favorable light as their struggle to bringThe African Queento the lake does causes the sinking of theKönigin Luise,and the Royal Navy gunboat does not appear in the film.[41]In the novella, the character of Charlie was British; in the film, he becomes Canadian to accommodate Bogart's American accent.[41]In 1915, there was a successful expedition commanded byGeoffrey Spicer-Simsonwhere the British dragged two Royal Navy gunboats across the African wilderness toLake Tanganyikato challenge German naval mastery of the lake, which served as the inspiration for the novella.[39]C. S. Forester,the author ofThe African Queendid not focus on the story of the real life expedition, which he incorporated into his novella as the Royal Navy gunboat in the book is clearly supposed to be one of the two real life gunboats, largely because of the tremendous suffering endured by the African porters who had to drag the two gunboats across the wilderness, an aspect of the expedition that Forester did not wish to dwell upon.[39]

During the campaign in East Africa, the German forces were quite ruthless in forcibly conscripting Africans to work as porters; seizing animals and food for themselves; and in carrying out a scorched earth strategy meant to deny the pursuing British forces the use of the countryside.[40]Barker wrote that the heroic way that the crew of theKönigin Luisego down fighting in the book "cancelled" out the brutal behavior of the German forces earlier while in the film the sinking of theKönigin Luiseis the just punishment of the German characters.[39]Both the book and the film accurately depict the scorched earth tactics of the GermanSchutztruppe,which had a devastating effect on the African peoples as thousands of Africans starved to death as a result of the destruction of crops and farm animals.[42]However, the focus in both the film and the book are on the white characters and both the film and book treats the Africans as mere extras in the story.[40]Despite the fact that both the book and the novella are set in the Great Lakes region of Africa, there are no important African characters in either the book or the film.[40]Both the book and the film present Africa as a exotic and dangerous locale where white people have adventures and romances, with the Africans themselves just in the background.[40]

Both the book and the film treat Africa as a place where it is possible to find happiness in a way that would be impossible in Europe. In both the book and the film, Rose is a prim, proper missionary from a middle class English family who is dominated by her bossy older brother Samuel, and it is during the voyage of theAfrican Queenthat she finds romance and happiness with Charlie along with the courage to assert herself.[40]In the book, Charlie is a coarse and somewhat disreputable working class Cockney who marries a middle class woman that he would be unlikely to marry in England.[39]The film changes Charlie into a Canadian, but has the same message that a working class man is able to marry a middle class woman that he would be unlikely to marry in a place other than Africa.[41]In the book, it is strongly implied that Rose and Charlie are engaged in a sexual relationship before marriage, an aspect of the book that was toned down in the film because of the Hayes Code, which forbade any depiction of a pre-marital sexual relationship. Unlike the book which was a straight adventure story, the film borrows much from American romantic comedies of the 1930s-1940s which portray a "battle of the sexes" that ends with a man and a woman finding love on the basis of "equality and symmetry".[43]The book is set in a thinly disguised version of Lake Tanganyika, on whose eastern shores was the colony of German East Africa (modern Tanzania), but the parts of the film shot on location were filmed in the Belgian Congo (modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) because director Huston had heard that the Belgian Congo was better for hunting elephants.[44]

Accolades

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Award Category Nominee(s) Result
Academy Awards Best Director John Huston Nominated
Best Actor Humphrey Bogart Won
Best Actress Katharine Hepburn Nominated
Best Screenplay James Ageeand John Huston Nominated
British Academy Film Awards Best Film Nominated
Best Foreign Actor Humphrey Bogart Nominated
National Film Preservation Board National Film Registry Inducted
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Film Nominated
Best Director John Huston Nominated
Best Actress Katharine Hepburn Nominated
Online Film & Television Association Awards Hall of Fame – Motion Picture Won

Others

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American Film Instituterecognition

AFI has also honored both Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn as thegreatest American screen legends.

Subsequent releases

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The film was released onRegion 2DVDin the United Kingdom, Germany and Scandinavia. The British DVD includes a theatricaltrailerand anaudio commentaryby cinematographer Jack Cardiff in which he details many of the hardships and challenges involved in filming in Africa.

Prior to 2010, the film had been released in the United States onVHSvideo,LaserDiscand as a Region 1 DVD.

2009 digital restoration

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In 2009,Paramount Pictures(the current owner of the film's American rights) completed restoration work for Region 1, and a4Kdigitally restored version from the originalcamera negativewas issued on DVD andBlu-rayon March 23, 2010. The film was restored with its original mono soundtrack from original UK film elements under the sole supervision of Paramount, and had as an extra a documentary on the film's production,Embracing Chaos: The Making of The African Queen.[45]Romulus Films and international-rights holderITV Studioswere acknowledged in the restoration credits.

ITVreleased the restoration in Region 2 on June 14, 2010.

Adaptations in other media

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The African Queenwas adapted as a one-hourLux Radio Theaterplay on December 15, 1952. Bogart reprised his film role and was joined byGreer Garson.[46]This broadcast is included as a bonus CD in the commemorative box-set version of the Paramount DVD.

The March 26, 1962 episode ofThe Dick Powell Theater,titledSafari,was based on the story, withJames CoburnandGlynis Johnsin the lead roles.

A1977 television filmcontinued the adventures of Charlie and Rose, withWarren OatesandMariette Hartleyin the lead roles. Though intended as thepilotfor a series, it was not picked up. An elliptic commentary on the making ofThe African Queencan be found in the 1990 filmWhite Hunter Black Heart,directed byClint Eastwood.

The African Queenpartially inspired theJungle Cruiseattraction atDisneyland.ImagineerHarper Goffreferenced the film frequently in his ideas, and his designs for the ride vehicles were inspired by the steamer used in the film.[47]

TheAfrican Queen

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Main article:African Queen (boat)

One of the two boats used as theAfrican Queenis actually the 35-foot (10 m) L.S.Livingston,which had been a working diesel boat for 40 years; the steam engine was a prop and the real diesel engine was hidden under stacked crates of gin and other cargo. Florida attorney and Humphrey Bogart enthusiast Jim Hendricks Sr. purchased the boat in 1982 in Key Largo, Florida. After falling into a state of disrepair following Hendricks' 2001 death, the ship was discovered rusting in a Floridamarinain 2012 by Suzanne Holmquist and her engineer husband Lance. The couple repaired and refurbished the ailing ship and made it available to tourists and film enthusiasts, providing cruises around theFlorida Keys.[48]

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