The African Queen
Wartime river adventure
*The African Queen* is a 1951 adventure film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, set during World War I in German East Africa.
Bogart plays a rough riverboat captain who helps a prim missionary escape downriver; their unlikely romance unfolds against jungle hazards and enemy gunboats.
The title refers to the dilapidated steam launch they travel on.
Bogart won his only Academy Award for the role.
- steamboatEngine-powered watercraft
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- jungleDense tropical forest
- jungle feverTropical infectious disease
- riverLarge flowing watercourse
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