Original Title: The African Queen
Year: 1951
Genre:
Drama, Adventure, Romance, War
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,9 (DINO Rating: 8,5)
Country: UK, USA
Language:
Director: John Huston
Writer: C.S. Forester, James Agee, John Huston
Composer: Allan Gray
Producer: Sam Spiegel, John Woolf
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel, Walter Gotell, Peter Swanwick, Richard Marner, Errol John, Gerald Onn, John von Kotze
Description: September 1914, news reaches the colony German Eastern Africa that Germany is at war, so Reverend Samuel Sayer became a hostile foreigner. German imperial troops burn down his mission; he is beaten and dies of fever. His well-educated, snobbish sister Rose Sayer buries him and leaves by the only available transport, the dilapidated river steamboat 'African Queen' of grumpy Charlie Allnut. As if a long difficult journey without any comfort weren't bad enough for such odd companions, she is determined to find a way to do their bit for the British war effort (and avenge her brother) and aims high, as God is obviously on their side: construct their own equipment, a torpedo and the converted steamboat, to take out a huge German warship, the Louisa, which is hard to find on the giant lake and first of all to reach, in fact as daunting an expedition as anyone attempted since the late adventurous explorer John Speakes, but she presses till Charlie accepts to steam up the Ulana, about to brave...
Comments:
Duration: 105 minutes (at 25 frames per second)
File path: Z:\01467 - African Queen (1951) [DVDRip]\The African Queen.avi
Filesize: 698 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 640x480 - quality: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
Audio:
Subtitles: Croatian