The greatest adventure a man ever lived… with a woman!
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
- 7.4
- 1952
- Released
- 1h 45m
Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut
Katharine Hepburn
Rose Sayer
Robert Morley
The Brother
Peter Bull
Captain of Louisa
Theodore Bikel
First Officer
Walter Gotell
Second Officer
Peter Swanwick
First Officer of Shona
Richard Marner
Second Officer of Shona
Released
en
$1,000,000.00
$10,750,000.00
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- #faith
- #africa
- #missionary
- #boat
- #river
- #hope
- #patriotism
- #hippopotamus
- #giraffe
- #methodist church
- #animal species
- #moqukito
- #boat wedding
- #leech
- #gin
- #tanzania
- #congo
- #man woman relationship
Reviews
**A film too American in an Africa still dominated by Europeans.** The film is set in colonial Africa during the First World War, near the Lake Tanganyika area, where the borders of the colonies of Rhodesia (British), Belgian Congo and Tanganyika (German) were formed. It all begins with the German attack on a native Rhodesian village where Protestant missionaries were based. After the attacks,
Saw this at the BFI in London recently and it looks superb on a big screen. Essentially a two-hander with screen legends Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn who have to escape the approaching WWI German East African forces by sailing down a river on a boat held together by chewing gum and a lot of good luck! Robert Morley has a small role at the start, and plays it to a "T" - setting us up for a
Giants of the silver screen delivering one giant of a movie. WW1, East Africa, after her brother is killed by invading German troops, Rose Sayer is reliant on gruff steamboat captain, Charlie Allnut, to ferry her safely out of harms way and back to civilisation. Trouble is is that they are poles apart in ideals and ways, she is a devoted missionary, he a hard drinking tough nut with a glint i