Information
- 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
- Subject
- 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)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/ED31-BACA-F6CF-4CE8-7A5F-CCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Master
35mm Cyan Separation Matrix - Safety - Mute - Master
35mm Original Negative - CTA - Sound - Master
35mm Magenta Separation Matrix - Safety - Mute - Master
35mm Cyan Separation Matrix - Safety - Mute - Master
35mm Yellow Separation Matrix - Safety - Mute - Master
35mm Yellow Separation Matrix - Safety - Mute - Master
35mm Magenta Separation Matrix - Safety - Mute - Master
35mm Original Cyan Separation Negative - Mixed - Mute - On loan
Original Magenta Separation Negative - Mixed - Mute - On loan
35mm Original Yellow Separation Negative - Mixed - Mute - On loan
VHS cassette - Video - Status pending
Digital Betacam - Video - Master
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Novel by C.S. Forrester - SCR-3378
Script - Original story: Novel by C.S. Forester - SCR-3379
Script - Script type: Release script - SCR-3380
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-22390
Small pressbook held.
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- StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-ndp
Photograph: transparency - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00n-qrp
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-bt3
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-bt2
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-bt1
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- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes February 2020
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +The African Queen
Work - 22390 - 1951 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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