Who directed the 1951 film 'The African Queen'?
"The African Queen (film) The African Queen is a 1951 British-American adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay was adapted by James Agee, John Huston, John Collier and Peter Viertel. It was photographed in Technicolor by Jack Cardiff and had a music score by Allan Gray. The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor – his only Oscar), and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner"
"The African Queen (1977 film) The African Queen is a television film which aired on CBS on March 18, 1977. It stars Warren Oates as Captain Charlie Allnut and Mariette Hartley as Rose Sayer, reprising roles originated by Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in the 1951 film of the same name. Rather than being a remake, the plot continues after the events of the original story, with Allnut and Sayer being recaptured by the Germans and forced to transport a 75mm cannon. Television critic Cecil Smith described the film's concept as ""maybe the silliest in the history of the medium."""
"African Queen"" (1951), King Vidor's ""War and Peace"" (1956), and """" (1985). However, he is best known for his extraordinary Technicolor photography on three films directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the 1940s — ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946), ""Black Narcissus"" (1947, for which Cardiff won an Oscar), and ""The Red Shoes"" (1948). Shooting took place in Mexico from November 1, 1983, to February 10, 1984. In the film, a camel is knocked to the ground, and after struggling to get back up, its hind legs are drawn forward with wires so that it is forced"
"The African Queen (novel) The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester. It was adapted into the 1951 film of the same name. The story opens in August/September 1914. Rose Sayer, a 33-year-old Englishwoman, is the companion and housekeeper of her brother Samuel, an Anglican missionary in German-colonized Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania). World War I has recently begun, and the German military commander of the area has conscripted all the natives; the village is deserted, and only Rose and her dying brother remain. Samuel dies during the night and Rose is alone. That day, another"
"by the Kaiserliche Marine on the outbreak of the First World War. She was used as an auxiliary minelayer off Harwich before being sunk on 5 August 1914 by the cruiser HMS ""Amphion"". A persistent rumour regarding London's population of feral Ring Necked Parakeets is that they originated from birds escaped or released from the filming of this movie. This claim was initially considered dubious though it was given more credence when a zoologist admitted her grandparents fed them. ""The African Queen"" opened on December 26, 1951 at the Fox Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills, in order to qualify for"
"final film for Bogart and John Huston. Co-written by Truman Capote, the eccentrically filmed tale follows an amoral group of rogues chasing an unattainable treasure. Bogart sold his interest in Santana to Columbia for over $1 million in 1955. Working outside of his own Santana Productions, Bogart starred with Katharine Hepburn in the John Huston directed ""The African Queen"" in 1951. The C.S. Forester novel on which it was based was overlooked and left undeveloped for fifteen years until producer Sam Spiegel and Huston bought the rights. Spiegel sent Katharine Hepburn the book and she suggested Bogart for the male"
"African Queen (boat) The African Queen (also known as S/L Livingstone) is the boat used in the 1951 movie ""The African Queen"" starring Humprey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. It is located in Key Largo, Florida. On February 18, 1992, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The boat was built of riveted sheet iron in 1912 in the United Kingdom for service in Africa on the Victoria Nile and Lake Albert where the movie was filmed in 1950. Originally named the ""Livingstone"", she was built for the British East Africa Railway and used from 1912 to"
"She played Rose Sayer, a prim spinster missionary living in German East Africa at the outbreak of World War I. Co-starring Humphrey Bogart, ""The African Queen"" was shot mostly on location in the Belgian Congo, an opportunity Hepburn embraced. It proved a difficult experience, however, and Hepburn became ill with dysentery during filming. Later in life, she released a memoir about the experience. The movie was released at the end of 1951 to popular support and critical acclaim, and gave Hepburn her fifth Best Actress nomination at the Academy Awards. The first successful film she had made without Tracy since"
"African cultures. Monley took a position as a secretary in Nairobi. While working that job, Monley was hired in her first job involving film. Monley worked as a script supervisor and assistant for the 1950 movie, ""King Solomon's Mines"". ""King Solomon's Mines"" shot on location throughout Kenya Colony, Belgian Congo and Tanganyika (present-day Tanzania). Once production had finished, Monley was hired in a similar position as assistant and script supervisor for the 1951 film ""The African Queen"", directed by John Huston. A string of behind-the-scenes positions for American and British film productions soon followed including ""The Snows of Kilimanjaro"" in"
"(1978), and ""Lifeforce"" (1985), and worked as a set decorator for films such as John Boorman's ""Deliverance"" (1972). He died in March 1997 at the age of 78 in Bracknell, Berkshire. John Hoesli John Hoesli (8 March 1919 – 22 March 1997) was a British art and set decorator. He is best known for being the art director on films such as John Huston's ""The African Queen"", Stanley Kubrick's """" (1968), Anthony Asquith's ""Orders to Kill"" (1958) with Alan Withy, and Jeannot Szwarc's """" (1985) with Don Dossett. It was Hoesli who found the old steamboat used in ""The African"
"The Magic Garden (film) The Magic Garden, also known as The Pennywhistle Blues, is a 1951 feature film produced and directed by British filmmaker Donald Swanson in South Africa, made in and around Johannesburg with an amateur cast. It is historically important in South African cinema as the first film with an all-black cast to be shown in the white cinemas in racially-segregated Johannesburg. It was nominated for two British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), for Best Film from any Source and Best British Film. It stars Tommy Ramokgopa, who also wrote some of the film's music. Willard Cele contributes to"
"Queen"" (1951): ""Two old people going up and down an African river . . . who's going to be interested in that? You'll be bankrupt!"". Korda was proved wrong. From this John Huston film they gained international critical and financial success. Two further films directed by Huston followed, ""Moulin Rouge"" (1952) and ""Beat the Devil"" (1953), but were less successful. Romulus became one of the most significant English production companies of the time. They made several films with producer Daniel Angel and helped turn Laurence Harvey, who they had under contract, into a star. In the mid-50s they formed a"
"""Variety"" opined that the leads ""Both turn in pro jobs but are necessarily haunted by their predecessors."" Though intended to be a pilot for a television series, it received disappointing ratings and was not picked up. The African Queen (1977 film) The African Queen is a television film which aired on CBS on March 18, 1977. It stars Warren Oates as Captain Charlie Allnut and Mariette Hartley as Rose Sayer, reprising roles originated by Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in the 1951 film of the same name. Rather than being a remake, the plot continues after the events of the"
"January 29, 1951. The Bandit Queen (film) The Bandit Queen is a 1950 American Western film directed by William Berke.and starring Barbara Britton, Willard Parker and Phillip Reed. as the leaders of a Robin Hood type band. Zarra Montalvo is the daughter of an American father and Spanish mother, Don Jose (Victor Kilian) and Zara Montalvo (Cecil Weston, credited as Cecile Weston). The Montalvo family possesses land rights or Spanish land grants to a hacienda with gold mines present. Abroad, Zarra comes home to California and witnesses her parents being murdered by Hank (John Merton) and an unknown man, Sheriff"
"John Hoesli John Hoesli (8 March 1919 – 22 March 1997) was a British art and set decorator. He is best known for being the art director on films such as John Huston's ""The African Queen"", Stanley Kubrick's """" (1968), Anthony Asquith's ""Orders to Kill"" (1958) with Alan Withy, and Jeannot Szwarc's """" (1985) with Don Dossett. It was Hoesli who found the old steamboat used in ""The African Queen"" at Butiaba on Lake Albert. Hoesli was also an assistant art director for many films which often went uncredited including Alfred Hitchcock's ""Jamaica Inn"" (1939), Gerald Thomas's ""Carry on Emmannuelle"""
"""Dark Passage"" (1947) and ""Key Largo"" (1948). His other significant films included ""The African Queen"", ""The Caine Mutiny"", ""Sabrina"" and ""The Barefoot Contessa"". Bogart won the Academy Award for Best Actor for ""The African Queen"", and was nominated for ""Casablanca"" and ""The Caine Mutiny"". Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Belmont DeForest Bogart (1867–1934) and Maud Humphrey (1868–1940). Belmont was the only child of the unhappy marriage of Adam Watkins Bogart, a Canandaigua, New York innkeeper, and his wife, Julia, a wealthy heiress. The name ""Bogart"" derives from the Dutch surname"
"""Jet"" found the film mediocre by western standards and technically crude, despite its historical importance. The Magic Garden (film) The Magic Garden, also known as The Pennywhistle Blues, is a 1951 feature film produced and directed by British filmmaker Donald Swanson in South Africa, made in and around Johannesburg with an amateur cast. It is historically important in South African cinema as the first film with an all-black cast to be shown in the white cinemas in racially-segregated Johannesburg. It was nominated for two British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), for Best Film from any Source and Best British Film. It"
"the expensive production staff at other studios. They had two hits, ""The African Queen"" and ""High Noon"", turning a profit in their first year. Among their first clients were Sam Spiegel and John Huston, whose Horizon Productions gave UA one major hit, ""The African Queen"" (1951) and a substantial success, ""Moulin Rouge"" (1952). Others followed, among them Stanley Kramer, Otto Preminger, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions, and actors newly freed from studio contracts and seeking to produce or direct their own films. With the instability in the film industry due to theater divestment, the business was considered risky. In 1955, movie attendance reached"
"London and admired the British, as is reflected in his films ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957) and ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), both of which won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. Starting with the 1951 film ""The African Queen"", he produced films through his British-based production company Horizon Pictures. In a review in Variety of a Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni's biography of Spiegel, Wendy Smith notes: ""It's all here: the sleazy financial maneuvers and creepy taste for underage girls that make Spiegel a decidedly flawed protagonist, as well as the wit, sophistication, and Old World charm that make him a"
"The Virgin Queen (1955 film) The Virgin Queen is a 1955 DeLuxe Color historical drama film in CinemaScope starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd and Joan Collins. It focuses on the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Sir Walter Raleigh. The film marks the second time Davis played the English monarch; the first was ""The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex"" (1939). It was also the first Hollywood film for Australian actor Rod Taylor. Charles LeMaire and Mary Wills were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. LeMaire won, but for another film, ""Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"""
"daughter Barbara Davis Sherry (known as B. D.), and later wrote in her memoir that she became absorbed in motherhood and considered ending her career. As she continued making films, however, her relationship with her daughter B. D. began to deteriorate, and her popularity with audiences was steadily declining. Among the film roles offered to Davis following her return to film-making was Rose Sayer in ""The African Queen"" (1951). When informed that the film was to be shot in Africa, Davis refused the part, telling Jack Warner, ""If you can't shoot the picture in a boat on the back lot,"
"industry contributed 2.3% of its gross domestic product (GDP). During the colonial era, Africa was represented exclusively by Western filmmakers. In the first decades of the twentieth century, Western filmmakers made films that depicted black Africans as ""exoticized"", ""submissive workers"" or as ""savage or cannibalistic"". For example, see ""Kings of the Cannibal Islands"" in 1909, ""Voodoo Vengeance"" (1913) and ""Congorilla"" (1932). Colonial era films portrayed Africa as exotic, without history or culture. Examples abound and include jungle epics based on the Tarzan character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the adventure film ""The African Queen"" (1951), and various adaptations of"
"and Theodore Bikel. ""The African Queen"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, with the Library of Congress deeming it ""culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"". The film holds a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews. Samuel Sayer (Robert Morley) and his sister Rose (Katharine Hepburn) are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in September 1914. Their mail and supplies are delivered by a small steam launch named the ""African Queen"", helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian boat captain Charlie"
"occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950, but whose death has marked a completed body of work. The top stars of their respective gender are Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. They starred together in the classic adventure 1951 film ""The African Queen"", for which Bogart won his only Academy Award. AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is a list of the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 15,"
"The Diamond Queen (1953 film) The Diamond Queen is a 1953 film directed by John Brahm. It stars Fernando Lamas and Arlene Dahl. Adventurer and gem expert Jean Baptiste Tavernier promises a diamond to cap King Louis XIV's crown for the coronation, but the reckless haste of the king's emissary, Baron Paul de Cabannes, causes the jewel to be cut badly and ruined. Jean volunteers to travel to India to bring back another worthy stone. Cabannes insists on coming along and complicates the journey more than once before saving Jean's life and earning his respect. The men are caught leering"
"Queen of the Amazons Queen of the Amazons is a 1947 adventure film directed by Edward Finney and featuring Robert Lowery, Patricia Morison and J. Edward Bromberg. Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) is determined to find her fiancé, Greg Jones (Bruce Edwards), who went on a safari and didn’t come back when expected. She travels to Akbar, India with Greg’s father, Colonel Jones (John Miljan), Wayne Monroe (Keith Richards) and the Professor (Wilson Benge). She asks about Jones at the front desk of the hotel where she stays. Although the clerk acts like he knows nothing of Jones, he immediately makes"
"The Bandit Queen (film) The Bandit Queen is a 1950 American Western film directed by William Berke.and starring Barbara Britton, Willard Parker and Phillip Reed. as the leaders of a Robin Hood type band. Zarra Montalvo is the daughter of an American father and Spanish mother, Don Jose (Victor Kilian) and Zara Montalvo (Cecil Weston, credited as Cecile Weston). The Montalvo family possesses land rights or Spanish land grants to a hacienda with gold mines present. Abroad, Zarra comes home to California and witnesses her parents being murdered by Hank (John Merton) and an unknown man, Sheriff Jim Harden (Barton"
"""Zouzou"", starring Josephine Baker, the first major film starring a black woman. Baker had caused a sensation in the Paris arts scene by dancing in the clad only in a string of bananas. In the French colonies Africans were prohibited by the 1943 Laval Decree from making films of their own. The ban stunted the growth of film as a means of African expression, political, cultural, and artistic. Congolese Albert Mongita did make ""The Cinema Lesson"" in 1951 and in 1953 Mamadou Touré made ""Mouramani"" based on a folk story about a man and his dog. In 1955, Paulin Soumanou"
"was refurbished in 2012, including installation of an interior steel hull frame and new boiler, and restored to service as a tourist boat. African Queen (boat) The African Queen (also known as S/L Livingstone) is the boat used in the 1951 movie ""The African Queen"" starring Humprey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. It is located in Key Largo, Florida. On February 18, 1992, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The boat was built of riveted sheet iron in 1912 in the United Kingdom for service in Africa on the Victoria Nile and Lake Albert where the"
"one of the credited screenwriters on two of the most respected films of the 1950s: ""The African Queen"" (1951) and ""The Night of the Hunter"" (1955). His contribution to ""Hunter"" is shrouded in controversy. Some critics have claimed the published script was written by the film's director Charles Laughton. Reports that Agee's screenplay for ""Hunter"" was incoherent have been proved false by the 2004 discovery of his first draft, which although 293 pages in length, is scene for scene the film which Laughton directed. While not yet published, the first draft has been read by scholars, most notably Professor Jeffrey"
"Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnutt and Katharine Hepburn as Rose Sayer. Allnutt is changed to a Canadian in the film to explain Bogart's accent. In the film the German captain attempts to hang Rose and Charlie. They are married by the captain before the execution. The ""Königin Luise"", however, crashes into the capsized ""African Queen"" and the torpedoes detonate, destroying the ship. Charlie and Rose escape in the confusion. The African Queen (novel) The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester. It was adapted into the 1951 film of the same name. The story"
"and transportation of a boat needed for his film. This boat was the ""African Queen"", which was used for the feature film ""The African Queen"" (starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn; 1951). After his first trip to Africa, Turnbull traveled to Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, where he worked as a geologist and gold miner for a year, before he went back to school to obtain another degree. Upon returning to Oxford in 1954, Turnbull began specializing in the anthropology of Africa. He remained in Oxford for two years before another field trip to Africa, finally focusing on the Belgian"
"Ubundu Ubundu, formerly known as Ponthierville or Ponthierstad, is a city located in the Tshopo Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is on the Lualaba River, or Upper Congo, just above the Boyoma Falls. The river is not navigable from here downstream to Kisangani, so a portage railway was built to link Ubundu to Kisangani. Upstream from Ubundu the river is navigable as far as Kasongo. In 1951, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and the crew of the film The African Queen arrived in Ubundu by train for filming in the jungle. In those days, the town was"