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The African Queen 1951

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The greatest adventure a man ever lived...with a woman.

Humphrey Bogart (in an Oscar winning performance) and Katherine Hepburn star in this 1951 adventure-romance from director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon). More

"Bogart plays the boozy riverboat captain in German east Africa who with the outbreak of war in 1914 grumpily agrees to help British national Miss Sayer (Hepburn) escape the enemy. Just as their downriver journey looks like being a metaphor for sexual initiation … it becomes an actual sexual initiation. The courage and lip-quivering vulnerability of Hepburn are tremendous." (The Guardian) Hide

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Empire (UK)

This is a film where pretty much everyone is serving aces. Full review.

Guardian (UK)

A ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. Full review.

New York Times

And so 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. Full review.

Total Film (UK)

It's probably cameraman Jack Cardiff who deserves kudos for turning this odd-couple romance into such a colourful escapade through east Africa. Full review.

Variety (USA)

It is a picture with an unassuming warmth and naturalness... Full review.