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    The African Queen

    Poster of the movie The African Queen
    1951     Romantic drama    
    USA/United Kingdom
    1h 45min
    Original lang: English, German
    PG
    Guide for parents: violence.
    G
    Guide for parents: Rated PG in the USA, violence.
    G
    Guide for parents: Rated PG in the USA, violence.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated PG in the USA, violence.
    G
    Guide for parents: Rated PG in the USA, violence.
    G
    Guide for parents: Rated PG in the USA, violence.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated PG in the USA, violence.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated PG in the USA, violence.

    Set at the beginning of WWI. German troops set fire to an African village, resulting in the death of an English missionary. His straightlaced sister Rose (Katharine Hepburn), now alone, is taken aboard a riverboat, the African Queen, by its gin-soaked Canadian skipper, Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart). Allnut would love to sit out the war just drinking and smoking, but Rose convinces him otherwise; newly invigorated and desiring revenge, she persuades him to take her downriver where they will try to destroy a German U-boat using homemade torpedoes. Along the way, the unlikely pair falls in love.

    Directed byJohn Huston
    Written byC.S. Forester, James Agee
    CompanyUnited ArtistsUnited ArtistsUnited Artists

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    Starring

    Humphrey Bogart
    Katharine Hepburn
    Robert Morley
    Theodore Bikel
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