- BFI identifier22390
- Date1951 (Copyright)
1952-03-10 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom, USA
- Production company
- SynopsisStory of the sister of a missionary and a heavy-drinking engineer in Africa during the First World War, who are forced to escape from the Germans down the river in an old boat and conceive a plan to improvise torpedos to attach to the boat in order to attack a German gun-boat in a lake at the river's end. (Synopsis)
- Work historyMain locations for the film were the Ruiki River, a small tributary of the River Congo, and Butiaba in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire).
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
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- Credits
- CastHumphrey Bogart (Charlie Allnutt)
Katharine Hepburn (Rose Sayer)
Robert Morley (Reverend Samuel Sayer, 'the brother')
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Title
The African Queen (Original)
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Script - Original story: Novel by C.S. Forester - SCR-3379
Script - Script type: Release script - SCR-3380
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