The African Queen (African Queen)

The African Queen (African Queen) | USA 1951 | D: John Huston | W: James Agee, John Huston, based on the novel by C.S. Forester | Cinematography: Jack Cardiff | Music: Allan Gray | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel, Walter Gotell | 105 min | OmU | Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn play a mismatched pair thrown together by the First World War in colonial East Africa. Together they try to sink a German steamship on Lake Victoria with Bogart's old boat. Highly entertaining adventure comedy in glorious Technicolor, which won Bogart the only Oscar of his career. The adventurous shoot on location in Africa was at least as exciting and dangerous as the events on screen, and is documented in several very worthwhile books. The film reached German cinemas only several years late, cut and cleaned of supposedly "anti-German" scenes.