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The African Queen

  The Film:
 
from Horizon Films / Romulus Productions

Directed by
John Huston

Starring
Humphrey Bogart (Charlie Allnut)
Katharine Hepburn (Rose Sayer)
Robert Morley (Reverend Samuel Sayer)
Peter Bull (Captain of Louisa)
Theodore Bikel (First Officer)
Walter Gotell (Second Officer)
Gerald Onn (Petty Officer)
Peter Swanwick (First Officer of Shona)
Richard Marner (Second Officer of Shona)

Written by
James Agee
C.S. Forester (novel)
John Huston
 

African Queen - (movie poster)Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) the boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer saves prim and proper Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn) after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage a German ship. Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director, Best Actress--Katharine Hepburn.
 

Awards:

1951
Academy Award®
Best Actor - Humphrey Bogart

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The African Queen
by Cecil Scott Forester

John Huston's Filmmaking (Cambridge Studies in Film)
by Lesley Brill

An Open Book
by John Huston

Reflections in a Male Eye : John Huston and the American Experience
(Smithsonian Studies in the History of Film and Television) (hardcover)
by John Huston, Gaylyn Studlar, David Desser (Editor)

Reflections in a Male Eye : John Huston and the American Experience
(Smithsonian Studies in the History of Film and Television) (paperback)
by John Huston, Gaylyn Studlar, David Desser

Bogart
by A. M. Sperber, Eric Lax

Bogart : A Life in Hollywood
by Jeffrey Meyers

Bogart : In Search of My Father
by Stephen Humphrey Bogart, Gary Provost, Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall : By Myself
by Lauren Bacall

The Complete Films of Humphrey Bogart
by Clifford McCarty, Lauren Bacall, Clifford McCarthy

The Making of the African Queen or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind
by Katharine Hepburn

Me : Stories of My Life
by Katharine Hepburn

Me : Stories of My Life (audiocassette)
by Katharine Hepburn

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