1914, East Africa. Smelling of gin captain Charlie arrives on his boat to the village, where the Christian mission Reverend Samuel and his unmarried sister Rose, who among the wild African jungle behave as if still in good old England. But the war dokatyvaetsya and to Africa.
Burst into the mission of German soldiers killed Samuel and rose have to escape with Charlie. Constantly quarreling with each other, a Prim missionary and reckless captain floating on the river towards a dangerous and romantic adventure
The African Queen
| Year | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Country | USA, UK |
| Tagline | The greatest adventure a man ever lived...with a woman! |
| Director | John Huston |
| Cinematography | Jack Cardiff |
| Scriptwriters | James AgeeJohn HustonJohn Collier |
| Produced | Sam SpiegelJohn Woolf |
| Music | Allan Gray |
| Art Direction | Wilfred Shingleton |
| Editing | Ralph Kemplen |
| Genres | DramaMelodramaAdventureMilitary |
| Release Date | December 26, 1951 |
| MPAA | PG |
| Runtime | 105 min. |
Plot Summary
Did You Know?
The first choice for the lead roles were John mills and Bette Davis. Later, in 1938, Bette Davis was intended to partner with David Niven. Nine years later, the project again to start production – in this moment partner Davis would be James Mason. Third and last, attempt to return to the ill-fated film Bette made in 1949, but it was too late – the Studio has already given the role of Katharine Hepburn.
Scenes with cane beach were filmed in Dalyan, Turkey.
Barca "the African Queen", season Charlie Allatom actually called "BOS Livingston" and served for 40 years before he was farmed out to Hollywood. Today it became decoration of the Motel "Hollywood Inn" in Key Largo, Florida. It is noteworthy that "Key Largo" (1948) the name of one of the previous joint work of John Huston and Humphrey Bogart.
Disneyland adapted the plot of the film as the basis of the attraction "jungle Cruise".
To show their aversion to the addiction of Houston and Bogart to alcohol, fundamentally, Hepburn drank only water. As a result, seriously ill with dysentery.
For Houston, "the African Queen" was a special film. Whole legends were about how he's neglectful of the shooting, and was absorbed in hunting for the elephant. The story of the filming can be found in his autobiography, Hepburn, and screenwriter Peter Virtel adapted these legends for his novel "White hunter, black heart"
Union Berlin exhibitors are required to remove the film from the program of the Berlin film festival, as it has anti-German sentiment.
From the beginning John Huston insisted on location shooting. In search of a river similar to the one that was described in the novel Forester, he logged thousands of miles on a plane crossing Africa from end to end, until he stopped in the Belgian Congo. In an era when shooting on location was not common, it was kind of a feat, given that in fact most of the film consists of dialogue. According to Houston, shooting on location was the only way to make the film believable and authentic. Even when the shooting took place in studios, Houston strove to make natural.
Leeches, trailers for Charlie, was made of clay, and mold, spanning it, rubber.
The current ending of the film did not appear immediately. The writer James Agee had a heart attack and he could not finish the script until the end. Houston had to extricate himself. Before was invented the final scenario, we considered three: rose and Charlie makes a British warship
