The African Queen is a movie directed by John Huston in 1951 and based on the book of the same name by C.S. Forester, first published in 1935. The movie features Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel, Walter Gotell, and others.
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Storyline
Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in September 1914. When Charlie warns the Sayers that war has broken out between Germany and Britain, they choose to remain in Kungdu, only to witness German colonial troops burn down the village and herd the villagers away to be forcibly recruited.
Movie vs Book
Year
1951
Minutes
105
Movie Rate
7.70
Source: IMDb
Movie
The African Queen
Director: John Huston
Country: UK
Year: 1951
Length: 1h45m
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Year
1935
Pages
256
Book Rate
8.08
S: Goodreads
Book
The African Queen
Author: C.S. Forester
Country: England
First published in: 1935
Length: 256 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.”
QUENTIN TARANTINO (Filmmaker, Scriptwriter, Actor)
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