Best movie of this year hands down!

Instant Favorite.

Absolutely Fantastic

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I forgot how much I loved this movie until i saw it again. This is Historical Fiction at its' finest. Both Hepburn and Bogart are a delight to watch; and their charm just exudes in every scene. Bogart plays one of his gruffest roles I've seen; and both characters end up contributing to each other's arch's in unexpected ways. And of course the setting is beautiful, with very few speaking roles on screen for any length of time outside of the duo. Another reviewer mentioned that lesser actors might have brought this film easily down to a glorified travel tour, and i have to agree with that. If either role had been cast with an actor whose presence came across as weak; this would at best: be a very boring movie to watch. Fortunately, that's not the case here. If you haven't seen it, it is so worth the watch! (Now i have to find out how the book and movie differ. I can't imagine what they had to leave out of the film adaptation.)

The African Queen (1951), John Huston, is the story of a Christian missionary (Katharine Hepburn) who falls for a riverboat captain ( Humphrey Bogart) who is fond of liquor. I thought The African Queen was a merely "okay" movie. I thought the acting was done well enough, Bogart does a fine job. The writing was serviceable, but seemed rather typical. However I found the cinematography to be quite lacking in any engagement or creativity and that severely dragged down my appreciation for this as a film. It seems that it is just a regular Romantic Comedy that tries to play with a exotic location as it's main draw. It just fell flat for me.

The African Queen is a well paced romantic comedy, reminiscent of the screwball style of the 1930s and 40s. The stars are well, the biggest names in Hollywood during this period. The coolest guy in the world Humphrey Bogart and greatest classic actress Katharine Hepburn collaborate in a mismatched journey out of German East Africa at the onset of World War I. The working class boat driver Charlie Alnutt, played by Bogart, contrasts in a screwball way with Hepburn's Rose Sayer, a member of the British elite. This movie has an amazing score and the music often directs the emotional dynamism in the film. In addition to the noteworthy music, no surprise in the 1950s, this film employs a lot of continuity editing. One primary example of this is when The African Queen, the actual boat on which Bogart and Hepburn are traveling, goes over a massive drop and is damaged severely. The following scene shows the pair draining the boat of water followed by a cut with continuity editing, showing the boat empty of water. Like all screwball comedies, the pair ends up together in the end despite mild turbulence. Overall, this film is a witty and fun ride through the African wilderness with two of American cinema's greatest treasures.

The African Queen is a well-remembered wartime romance with a good cast and interesting setting. The real stars of the show are the triumvirate of Humphrey Bogart, full of gruff charm as the boat captain, Katharine Hepburn, all prim and proper, and director John Huston, who creates a lush and impressively-realised world for our characters to inhabit.Although war provides a backdrop to the tale and figures predominantly in the opening and closing sequences, the emphasis of The African Queen is very much on the developing relationship and later romance between the two characters. Thankfully, the stars are good enough to hold their own on the screen, and there are some memorable set-piece sequences along the way, such as the well-remembered bits like the storm and the encounter with the leeches.