Overview:
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.| Status: | Released (1952-01-07) |
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| Awards: | Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 9 nominations total |
| Screen: | C.S. Forester, James Agee, John Huston |
| Productions: | United Artists, Independent Film Distributors, Romulus Films |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Deutsch, Kiswahili |
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Casts
- 4110: Humphrey Bogart - Charlie Allnut
- 6598: Katharine Hepburn - Rose Sayer
- 6599: Robert Morley - The Brother
- 6600: Peter Bull - Captain of Louisa
- 6609: Theodore Bikel - First Officer
- 6610: Walter Gotell - Second Officer
- 6611: Peter Swanwick - First Officer of Shona
Crews
- 6603: Jack Cardiff - Director of Photography - Camera
- 6608: Cliff Richardson - Special Effects - Crew
- 6593: John Huston - Director - Directing
- 6604: Ralph Kemplen - Editor - Editing
- 6607: Doris Langley Moore - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
- 6594: Sam Spiegel - Producer - Production
- 6605: Wilfred Shingleton - Art Direction - Art
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Reviews
John Chard
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Giants of the silver screen delivering one giant of a movie. WW1, East Africa, after her brother is killed by invading German troops, Rose Sayer is reliant on gruff steamboat captain, Charlie Allnut, to ferry her safely out of harms way and back to civilisation. Trouble is is th ....
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Saw this at the BFI in London recently and it looks superb on a big screen. Essentially a two-hander with screen legends Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn who have to escape the approaching WWI German East African forces by sailing down a river on a boat held together by chewing ....
Continue reading ->Filipe Manuel Neto
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**A film too American in an Africa still dominated by Europeans.** The film is set in colonial Africa during the First World War, near the Lake Tanganyika area, where the borders of the colonies of Rhodesia (British), Belgian Congo and Tanganyika (German) were formed. It all begin ....
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