Title: The African Queen
Release Date: 1951 December 23
Director: John Huston
Production Company: United Artists
Summary/Review:
Happy Valentines Day! Rewatching this movie made me realize it’s the ultimate Rom-Com in which woman decides that their first date should be to cruise down some rapids and torpedo a boat. Wackiness ensues! Seriously though, The African Queen was always a favorite when I was young but it’s been decades since I’ve watched it. The movie loses points for the casually colonialist/racist opening scenes. But once you have Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart alone on a boat, it’s a treasure. These two actors seem to so effortlessly become the characters they’re playing. And the cinematography is spectacular, especially for a color movie filmed on location in 1950. A deserved classic.
Rating: ****1/2
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I thought it was a scale of one to four stars! :-)
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5 stars – all-time classic (I’m very stingy with these)
4 stars – a particularly interesting, well-done, or important movie
3 stars – a good, solid movie from start to finish
2 stars – not a good movie on the whole but has some good parts
1 star or fewer – basically a bad movie with no redeeming values
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