The African Queen
The African Queen is a 1951 film about a gin-swilling riverboat captain in Africa during WWI who is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
The greatest adventure a man ever lived...with a woman!
- Directed by John Huston. Written by James Agee and John Huston, based on the novel by C. S. Forester.
Charlie Allnut
- Ooooh! Coward yourself! You ain't no lady. No, Miss. That's what my poor old Mother would say to you, if my poor old Mother was to hear you. Whose boat is this, anyway? I asked you on board 'cause I was sorry for you on account of your losing your brother and all. What you get for feeling sorry for people! Well, I ain't sorry no more, you crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!
- Pinch me, Rosie. Here we are, going down the river like Anthony and Cleopatra on that barge! I'll never forget the way you looked going over the falls - head up, chin out, hair blowing in the wind - the living picture of a hero-eyne!
- What a time we've had, Rosie. What a time. We'll never lack for stories to tell our grandchildren, will we?
Rose Sayer
- [to Charlie, after sleeping with him] Dear. What is your first name?
- [to Charlie] You're the bravest man that ever lived.
- Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.
German captain
- By the authority vested in me by Kaiser Wilhelm II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.
Dialogue
- Charlie: I don't blame you for being scared, Miss, not one little bit. Ain't no person in their right mind ain't scared of white water.
- Rose: I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!
- Charlie: How's that, Miss?
- Rose: I've only known such excitement a few times before - a few times in my dear brother's sermons when the spirit was really upon him.
- Charlie: You mean you want to go on?
- Rose: Naturally.
- Charlie: Miss, you're crazy.
- Rose: I beg your pardon.
- Charlie: You know what would have happened if we would have come up against one of them rocks?
- Rose: But we didn't. I must say I'm filled with admiration for your skill, Mr. Allnut. Do you suppose I'll try practice steering a bit that someday I might try? I can hardly wait... Now that I've had a taste of it. I don't wonder you love boating, Mr. Allnut.
- Rose: Don't be worried, Mr. Allnut.
- Charlie: Oh, I ain't worried, Miss. Gave myself up for dead back where we started.
Cast
- Humphrey Bogart - Charlie Allnut
- Katharine Hepburn - Rose Sayer
- Robert Morley - Rev. Samuel Sayer
- Peter Bull - German captain of the Louisa
- Theodore Bikel - First Officer