The African Queen (1951)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.1/10   

Director:

John Huston

Escritores:

C.S. Forester (novel)
James Agee (adaptation) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

20 febrero 1952 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Drama | Romance | Guerra

Frase comercial:

The greatest adventure a man ever lived...with a woman!

Plot:

In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.

Plot Keywords:

German | Steamboat | River | Mission | Boat

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Three Great Artists and One Great Movie

US TV Schedule:

Sun. July 12

8:00 PM

TCM

Reparto

Humphrey Bogart	...	Charlie Allnut
Katharine Hepburn	...	Rose Sayer
Robert Morley	...	Rev. Samuel Sayer
Peter Bull	...	Captain of Louisa
Theodore Bikel	...	First Officer
Walter Gotell	...	Second Officer
Peter Swanwick	...	First Officer of Shona
Richard Marner	...	Second Officer of Shona

También conocida como:

La reina africana (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
La reina de África (Spain) [es]

Duración:

105 min

País:

UK | USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Alemán | Swahili

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Norway:7 | Singapore:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #15611) | South Korea:15 (2002) | Argentina:13 | Australia:G | Finland:S | Iceland:L | Netherlands:AL (video rating) | Sweden:15 | UK:U | USA:Unrated | West Germany:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Compañía:

Horizon Pictures (II)

Trivialidades:

Katharine Hepburn, in her written account of the film's production titled "The Making of "The African Queen," or How I Went to Africa with Bogie, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind", described the first day of shooting, which required five cars and trucks to take the cast, crew and equipment three and a half miles from Biondo to the Ruiki river, at which point they loaded everything onto boats and sailed another two and a half miles to the shooting location. Press materials and contemporary articles detail the various perils of shooting on location in Africa, including dysentery, malaria, bacteria-filled drinking water and several close brushes with wild animals and poisonous snakes. Most of the cast and crew were sick for much of the filming. In a February 1952 New York Times article, John Huston declared that he hired local natives to help the crew, but many would not show up for fear that the filmmakers were cannibals.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Charlie climbs back onto the boat after diving under the water to inspect the damage to the propeller and shaft, his hair upper torso are clearly dry.

Citas:

Charlie Allnut: [his stomach is growling] Ain't a thing I can do about it.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "The Red Green Show: The Beaver Dam (#10.16)" (2000)

Banda de Sonido:

God of Grace and God of Glory (Cwm Rhondda)

Three Great Artists and One Great Movie

This is not the best movie Ford, Bogart, or Hepburn did as individual artists, the but joining of their considerable talents did create a unique and most enjoyable movie that is fondly associated with all of them.

"The African Queen" is a war movie, romance, adventure, comedy, drama, morality tale, and battle of the sexes all in one and it works on all levels. Though it often appears as somewhat "hoaky"...almost like a silent movie at points with its melodramatic score... that's because it does not strive to recreate reality like the usual war movie, it is actually an on location play. You could put it on a Broadway or London stage today and it would still work without a word or inflection changed.

Though this is a movie of many great moments, what stays with you is the blossoming love of Charlie and Rose and how it helps them find the best in themselves for each other. I guess when all is said and done, "The African Queen" is a romance after all.

If you appreciate any of the great artists that created it or just great movie making, this is one for the collection.