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The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by ... but release them in a magnanimous gesture, unaware of the failed plot. [39]
In August/September 1914, Rose Sayer, a 33-year-old British woman, is the companion and housekeeper of her brother Samuel, a Methodist missionary in German East Africa. [N 1] World War I has begun, and the German Schutztruppe commander of the area has conscripted all the natives; the village is deserted, and only Rose and her brother, who is dying, remain.
The African Queen, a 1935 novel by C. S. Forester; The African Queen, a 1951 film adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn; The African Queen, a television film starring Warren Oates and Mariette Hartley
Hepburn and Bogart in The African Queen (1951) Outside Santana Productions, Bogart starred with Katharine Hepburn in the John Huston-directed The African Queen in 1951. The C. S. Forester novel on which it was based was overlooked and left undeveloped for 15 years until producer Sam Spiegel and Huston bought the rights.
1951 The Morning Watch, Houghton Mifflin; 1951 The African Queen, screenplay from C. S. Forester novel; 1952 Face to Face (The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky segment), screenplay from Stephen Crane story; 1955 The Night of the Hunter, screenplay from Davis Grubb novel; 1957 A Death in the Family (posthumous; stage adaptation: All the Way Home) 1958 ...
The elephant gun used in the film was a £65,000 double-barreled rifle of the type preferred by most professional hunters and their clients in this era. It was made by Holland & Holland, the gunmakers who also made the gun used by Huston when he was in Africa for The African Queen in 1951.
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Returning to acting after the war, he both narrated and had a small on-screen role in Scrooge (1951) and portrayed the captain of the ship that Katharine Hepburn's and Humphrey Bogart's characters set out to destroy, whom they persuade to marry them just before they are to be executed, in The African Queen (1951).