Afrikas Drottning

The African Queen

A perfect ensemble of cast, photography and screenplay are all subtly handled through Huston's direction, bringing out Bogart and Hepburn's performances beautifully.

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

He looks, then she looks; she laughs, then he laughs. We're just happy to be there.

Humphrey Bogart bagged his Oscar, as a gin-swilling riverboat captain squaring off against Katharine Hepburn’s snooty missionary, in John Huston’s grand, propulsive and plumly-restored slice of Technicolor derring-do.

Humphrey Bogart won his only Oscar for playing the hard-drinking boatman...