The literary adaptation African Queen is not only a legendary adventure film, but is also considered one of the most beautiful love stories from 1950s Hollywood and earned Humphrey Bogart his first and only Oscar for Best Actor.
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This is what African Queen is about
Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn) and her brother Samuel Sayer (Robert Morley) live in a small village as missionaries in Central Africa and regularly receive mail from the cutter African Queen. Its captain Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) has to inform them one day that the First World War broke out is.
An attack by German soldiers on the village, in which it is completely burned down, is not long in coming and Rose is the only one left behindThe neat and well-mannered lady then persuades the rough and freedom-loving Charlie to come with her on his boat.
While Charlie would prefer to sit out the war with a few bottles of rum on the boat, Rose plans to follow the Germans on the river and To sink a ship with homemade torpedoesOn the dangerous journey through the African jungle, the two gradually grow closer.
African Queen: Background and criticism
In addition to the Academy Award for Humphrey Bogart, African Queen also nominated in three other Oscar categories (Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay). The latter was directed by John Huston and James Agee, who in turn drew on the novel of the same name by CS Forester. Among other things, it was ranked 65th among the best films by the American Film Institute and the FILMSTARTS critics also awarded it a masterpiece with 5 out of 5 stars.
It says that director Huston cast the two leading actors Hepburn and Bogart “into a colourful African rainforest with all the trimmings, that is to say with all the beauty and danger” dives. He has a masterpiece of cinematography created in which a balanced amount of tragedy, romance and comedy is found, which never loses tension and also lives from humorous and intelligent dialogues.
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