The African Queen is a 1951 British-American adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film is set in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in September 1914. It is about two Methodist missionaries who try to escape the Germans by converting their steam launch into a torpedo boat and sinking a German gunboat. The movie was shot in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and has a music score by Allan Gray.
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The African Queen is a 1951 British-American adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel. The African Queen was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, with the Library of Congress deeming it “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” The film is set in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in September 1914. It is about two Methodist missionaries who try to escape the Germans by converting their steam launch into a torpedo boat and sinking a German gunboat. The movie was shot in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and has a music score by Allan Gray. It was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Hust on, John Collier and Peter Viertel and was photographed by JackCardiff. It has been rated as one of the best films of the 20th century by the Razzies and the British Board of Deputies of the British Army. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Picture in 1951, as well as the BAFTAs for Best Director, Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor for Bogart, Hepburn, and Best Actor for Huston, and for Best Supporting Actress for Hepburn and Best Actress for Hustons.
The director also won a BAFTA award for Best Foreign Film in 1951 for his work on The Siege of Lusitania, which was based on the novel by Forester, and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Siege Of Lusitania in 1953. The book was published by Simon & Schuster, who also co-wrote the screenplay for The Descent of the African Queen, which also starred Bogart and Hepburn in the roles of Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer. The novel was adapted for the screen by Simon and Schuster and was published in paperback in 1953, with a print run of 1,000 copies sold for a total of $16,000, including $1,000 for the film’s soundtrack. The original version of the film was released on November 14, 1951. It opened in cinemas on November 17, 1951, and was released in UK cinemas the following day. The UK release date was November 18, 1951 (but the US release date has not yet been released). The film has been released in the UK and the U.S. on November 19, 1951 and the UK release dates have yet to be released. The U.K. release date is November 20, 1952 (but not the UK released the UK version of The Descendant). The US release dates are November 21, 1952, and November 23, 1952. The British release the UK edition on November 28, 1953 (and the UK releases the UK copy on November 30, 1953.
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