The African Queen (Blu-ray)
The greatest adventure a man ever lived … with a woman!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2013
- Originally Released: 1951
- Label: Paramount Catalog
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Humphrey Bogart & Katharine Hepburn | |
Performer: | Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner & Peter Bull | |
Directed by | John Huston | |
Edited by | Ralph Kemplen | |
Screenwriting by | James Agee & John Huston | |
Composition by | Allan Gray | |
Story by | C.S. Forester | |
Produced by | Sam Spiegel | |
Director of Photography: | Jack Cardiff |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Actor: Humphrey Bogart
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
It's probably cameraman Jack Cardiff who deserves kudos for turning this odd-couple romance into such a colourful escapade through east Africa.
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Total Film
Bogart is hilariously crusty as a hard-drinking river rat who journeys downriver on a rickety steamer with a prim missionary... -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
This movie is in the DNA of rom-coms and buddy-cop comedies and fish-out-of-water tales and Indiana Jones (he bickers and fights Germans too! Plus, dirt beard!).
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The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Rating: 4/5 --
[A] grand, propulsive and plumly-restored slice of Technicolor derring-do.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
4 stars out of 5 -- QUEEN still plays like the most glorious triumph of faith against plausibility.
Total Film
Rating: 5/5 --
A ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.
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Guardian
The result, although considerably more melodramatic in spots than C. S. Forester's novel, is a vastly enjoyable movie directed by John Huston. It was filmed, of course, right in Africa.
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Maclean's Magazine
Product Description:
The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut, saves prim and proper Rose Sayer after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage a German ship. Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester, the wonderful combination of Hepburn and Bogie (who won an Oscar) makes this a thoroughly enjoyable blend of comedy and adventure. Later came the book (and Clint Eastwood film) White Hunter, Black Heart, which chronicled Peter Viertel's experiences observing Huston throughout the making of the picture.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Classic
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Romance
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World War I
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On-The-Run
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Love Story
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Jungle
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Recommended
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Africa
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Theatrical Release