The African Queen (1952)

Movie Details

Original Title The African Queen

Original Language EN

Budget $1,000,000

Revenue $10,750,000

Status Released

Popularity 1.5

Cast

Humphrey Bogart

Charlie Allnut

Popularity: 1.1

Katharine Hepburn

Rose Sayer

Popularity: 1.7

Robert Morley

The Brother

Popularity: 2.5

Peter Bull

Captain of Louisa

Popularity: 0.7

Theodore Bikel

First Officer

Popularity: 1.9

Walter Gotell

Second Officer

Popularity: 0.9

Peter Swanwick

First Officer of Shona

Popularity: 0.3

Richard Marner

Second Officer of Shona

Popularity: 1.0

Key Crew

Producer John Woolf, Sam Spiegel

Director John Huston

Editor Ralph Kemplen

Screenplay James Agee, John Huston

Production

United Artists

Independent Film Distributors

Romulus Films

Videos & Trailers

Official 4K Trailer

Trailer

Original Trailer

Trailer

Masters of Cinema Trailer

Trailer

Wedding

Clip

Hip Hip Hooray

Clip

Ain't Worried

Clip

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Posters

Keywords

world war i faith africa missionary boat river hope patriotism hippopotamus giraffe methodist church animal species moqukito boat wedding leech gin tanzania congo man woman relationship technicolor

Reviews from TMDB

John Chard 10/10

Mar 15, 2019

Giants of the silver screen delivering one giant of a movie. WW1, East Africa, after her brother is killed by invading German troops, Rose Sayer is reliant on gruff steamboat captain, Charlie Allnut, to ferry her safely out of harms way and back to civilisation. Trouble is is that they are pole ... Read more

CinemaSerf 8/10

Jan 7, 2023

Saw this at the BFI in London recently and it looks superb on a big screen. Essentially a two-hander with screen legends Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn who have to escape the approaching WWI German East African forces by sailing down a river on a boat held together by chewing gum and a lot of ... Read more

Filipe Manuel Neto 6/10

Oct 22, 2023

**A film too American in an Africa still dominated by Europeans.** The film is set in colonial Africa during the First World War, near the Lake Tanganyika area, where the borders of the colonies of Rhodesia (British), Belgian Congo and Tanganyika (German) were formed. It all begins with the Germa ... Read more