![]() ![]() And while skedaddling they conceive of a cockeyed plan to help in the war effort. Bogie comes back and he finds Kate with her dead brother. Almost as soon as he leaves them, German troops from East Africa come to call. ![]() And he breaks the news to them that World War I has started. ![]() Humphrey Bogart, our intrepid river pilot, makes a scheduled stop to deliver mail to the mission run by Robert Morley and Katharine Hepburn. A ne'er do well river pilot on a ramshackle boat and the spinster sister of a missionary, thrown together by the circumstance of war. But also, The African Queen dealt with romance among mature adults in their forties. The African Queen changed all that, no cheap studio sets would do any more. Previously our ideas about Africa were gleaned from studio backlot jungles created for Tarzan films and the like. Along with King Solomon's Mines it was the first American film to show the real Africa to the American public. The African Queen is a significant historical film in two respects. ![]()
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