The African Queen is based on C.S. Forester’s novel and directed by John Huston.
It’s
set in German Eastern Africa at the beginning of WW1 and begins at a Christian
Mission where Reverend Samuel Sayer (Robert Morley) has become a hostile
foreigner, so German imperial troop’s burn down his mission.
He
is beaten during the attack and later dies of fever, leaving his spinster
sister Rose (Katharine Hepburn) all alone until Charlie Allnut (Humphrey
Bogart) the gin-swilling riverboat captain of the dilapidated river steamboat
'African Queen' arrives and gives her a means of escape.
They
bury Samuel and set off on the long difficult journey down river without any
comfort and along the way the odd companions conceive a cockeyed plan to help
in the British War effort (and avenge her brother), by sinking a huge German
warship, the Louisa, on Lake Victoria, by constructing their own torpedo.
The
unlikely couple, an ex gin-swilling riverboat captain and a former strait-laced
missionary, aim high in their endeavour, as God is obviously on their side, and
they have love for each other.
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