The African Queen (1952) movie poster

The African Queen (1952)

"The greatest adventure a man ever lived… with a woman!"
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👍 74%audience score
Critics Score
🎬 94%
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Director
John Huston
Runtime
1h 45m
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.4/10 (1,036 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
91

Cast

Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut · 83% avg
Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer · 82% avg
Robert Morley as The Brother · 80% avg
Peter Bull as Captain of Louisa
Theodore Bikel as First Officer
Walter Gotell as Second Officer · 78% avg
Peter Swanwick as First Officer of Shona
Richard Marner as Second Officer of Shona

Is The African Queen good?

Most people think so. 74% audience score, estimated from 1,036 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 94%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#725 / 1262 · Romance
Rank in its year
#7 / 7 · 1952
Rank among its director's films
#7 / 8 · John Huston

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

r/movies
⬆ 11,178💬 869 comments
Katherine Hepburn only drank water throughout The African Queen production as a protest against John Huston and Humphrey Bogart's alcoholism. However, most of the cast and crew became sick from the water and only Bogart and Huston were unaffected because they only drank whiskey.
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Top comment: "Yeah, you can't "only drink whiskey"."
r/movies
⬆ 2,898💬 253 comments
Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn while filming THE AFRICAN QUEEN in Uganda 1950. Disgusted with the amount of alcohol Bogart and John Huston consumed during production, Hepburn drank only water and, as a result, suffered from dysentery. Bogart: "When a fly bit me or Huston, IT dropped dead."
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Top comment: "Badass comes in all sorts of flavors, but murdering living things with the alcohol level in your..."
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⬆ 116💬 27 comments
The African Queen, what a movie
If you, like me are a lifelong movie fan who for whatever reason is now only beginning to explore the classics, then may I suggest The African Queen?... Read on Reddit →
Top comment: "for your journey can i recommend: Casablanca, the Maltese Falcon (both bogart films), and for a..."
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