{"id":371,"date":"2014-06-28T14:56:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T14:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2024-12-25T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T21:25:15","slug":"the-african-queen-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"The African Queen-1951"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The African Queen-1951<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director John Huston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #76<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/60011001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-876\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/60011001-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"60011001\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/60011001-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/60011001.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 28, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The African Queen (1951) is a difficult film to review.<\/p>\n<p>Revered and appearing on many of the greatest films of all time lists, this film is disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn star as a couple who despise each other, stranded together on a tugboat in Africa on the eve of World War I.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the chemistry between Bogart and Hepburn (Hollywood royalty in their day) is there, and the opposite attraction has a definite rooting value as their passion oozes off the screen.<\/p>\n<p>He is a grizzled alcoholic American. She is a repressed, puritanical British woman. The locales of Africa, as the couple traverses on a makeshift boat, are gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>That is it for me, though- nothing else about the film is spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>The plot is silly and unrealistic, and the two are thrown together purely for plot purposes. The adventure seems quite secondary to the love story at hand.<\/p>\n<p>How far-fetched is that an &#8220;old maid&#8221; and a sailor could build torpedoes and blow up an enormous German warship?<\/p>\n<p>The film is a decent, old-fashioned romantic adventure but not much more, which disappoints me because, given its accolades, I was expecting much more.<\/p>\n<p>Bogart won the 1951 Best Actor Oscar for this performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Nominations<\/strong>: <strong>1 win<\/strong>-Best Director-John Huston, Best Actor-Humphrey Bogart <strong>(won)<\/strong>, Best Actress-Katharine Hepburn, Best Screenplay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Queen-1951 Director John Huston Starring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn Scott&#8217;s Review #76 Reviewed June 28, 2014 Grade: B- The African Queen (1951) is a difficult film to review. Revered and appearing on many of the greatest films of all time lists, this film is disappointing. 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