The African Queen(Movie, 1951)

Name: The African Queen
Genre: Adventure, Romance / Love
Released: 1951
Duration: T01:45:00
Rating: 3.7

1h 45min | Genres: Adventure, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 392 votes)

The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel. It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and has a music score by Allan Gray. The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor, his only Oscar) and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore B..."> ()

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Awards & Nominations for The African Queen

Academy Award for Best Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actress nominated for: Academy Award for Best Director nominated for: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

About The African Queen

At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.

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Trailer for The African Queen + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

THE AFRICAN QUEEN ('51) - ORIGINAL Trailer(Trailer, 2:42)

Additional Information

Production countries: United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA)

Shot in: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Turkey

Plays in: Africa

Based on the work of: C. S. Forester ("The African Queen")

Made by: United Artists, Romulus Films, Independent Film Distributors

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Swahili (SW)

Translated into 26 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 02/20/1952 (World premiere: 01/07/1952)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Peter Swanwick, Richard Marner, Errol John

Director: John Huston

Producer: Sam Spiegel, John and James Woolf

Screenwriter: John Huston, James Agee, Peter Viertel, C. S. Forester

Film Editor: Ralph Kemplen

Director of Photography: Jack Cardiff

Composer: Allan Gray

Production Designer: Wilfred Shingleton

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"La reina d'Àfrica"

"Uma Aventura na África"

"东非狂暴记"

"非洲皇后号"

"Afrikas dronning"

"La Reina de África"

"L'odyssée de l'African Queen"

"아프리카의 여왕"

"Afrikadronningen"

"A Rainha Africana"

"Afrikas drottning"

"非洲女王號"

Keywords: giraffe, hippopotamus, river, gin, congo, tanzania, africa, leech, methodist church, boat wedding, boat, moqukito, technicolor, faith, missionary, hope, patriotism, world war i, animal species

Budget: 1,000,000 USD

Revenue: 10,750,000 USD (= 1,075%)

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