The African Queen

A British missionary and his wife attempt to sink a German warship using their boat, the African Queen, but face various challenges along the way before successfully achieving their goal and escaping to safety. The African Queen is a 1952 English-language Adventure Drama motion picture featuring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel, Walter Gotell and Joseph Layode. The movie is inspired from The African Queen 1935 novel by C. S. Forester. Horizon Pictures in association with Romulus Films. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The African Queen is written by C.s. Forester, James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel and it is directed by John Huston. United Artists acquired the distribution rights for the movie. The African Queen was released on 21st March 1952 and takes a screen time of 105 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. The African Queen was made on a budget of $1 million and at the box office it grossed only $0 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by John Huston, James Agee, Peter Viertel and John Collier. Cinematography was done by Jack Cardiff and editing by Ralph Kemplen. The music was composed by Allan Gray. At the 1952 Oscar Awards It won an award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Humphrey Bogart).