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The African Queen (1951)

★ 7.4 · 1,051 ratings on TMDB

The greatest adventure a man ever lived… with a woman!

The African Queen poster★ 7.4

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.

DirectorJohn Huston
CastHumphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Peter Bull, Peter Swanwick, Richard Marner, Robert Morley
GenresAdventure, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

The African Queen keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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