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Hepburn plays Rose Sayer, a missionary's sister living in British Colonial Africa at the start of [[World War I]]. Bogart is Charlie Allnut, the hard-drinking man with a riverboat who, among other things, brings the mail from town every few weeks. When Rose's brother dies, he offers to take her to the nearest town to catch a ship and go back to Britain. Being gutsy as she is, Rose instead creates a daring plan to build a makeshift torpedo, sail ''down'' the river (which no one has ever done) and take out the ''Königin Luise'', a ship patrolling the German-controlled lake that is the only thing standing in the way of the British army. This being a film with a man and a woman as its primary stars in the [[The Fifties|1950s]], naturally, [[Uptight Loves Wild|they fall in love]].
Bogart, of course, would win his only [[Academy Award|Oscar]], while Hepburn would add yet another nomination to her impressive collection. ''The African Queen'' itself was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 1994.
The [[Troubled Production]] film made such an impression on Hepburn she later wrote a book about it, entitled ''The Making of'' The African Queen: ''or How I Went To Africa With Bogie, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind''. This film is notable for how damn long it took to come out on DVD despite widespread interest: it came only out in 2010, at least in the US. (An earlier British DVD was taken from a faded print. Later DVD and Blu-Ray releases are fully remastered.)
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* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Rose can never look like someone who is eaten alive by tropical insects. [[Fridge Logic|She's Katherine Hepburn.]]
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Bring your German vocabulary flash cards.
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* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: An unbelievable amount of stuff gets slipped under the radar in this movie...
** [After going down the first rapids]:
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'''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...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. }}
** And the scene of her pumping the bilges, as he shows her how to do it...more...slowly...
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