The African Queen [videorecording] /Horizon Pictures presents ; adapted for the screen by James Agee & John Huston ; a Romulus-Horizon production ; produced by Sam Spiegel ; directed by John Huston.
Contributor(s): Bogart, Humphrey | Hepburn, Katharine | Agee, James | Huston, John | Spiegel, Sam | Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott). African Queen | Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm) | Horizon Pictures (G.B.) | Romulus Films.
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Visual materialPublisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, 2010Edition: [Standard format].Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 9781415719343; 1415719349.Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Africa -- Drama | River boats -- Africa -- Drama | Man-woman relationships -- Drama | Video recordings for the hearing impaired | World War, 1914-1918 -- Africa -- Fiction | River boats -- Fiction | Man-woman relationship -- Fiction | Closed caption video recordings | VideodiscsGenre/Form: Feature films. | War films. | Action and adventure films. | Fiction films. | Film adaptations. | DVD-Video discs.DDC classification: [Fic] | 813/.54 Young Adult Follett Library Resources
DVD; Dolby digital mono.; region 1.
Dialogue and subtitles in English, French, or Spanish.
Closed-captioned.
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel, Peter Bull.
Director of photography, Jack Cardiff ; editor, Ralph Kemplen ; music composed by Allan Gray.
Based on the novel The African Queen by C.S. Forester.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.
Filmed in Africa and at Isleworth Studios, London.
Not rated.
A drunken river trader, Charlie Allnut, ferries Rose Sayer from the site of her recently deceased brother's failed mission in East Africa on his steamboat, the "African Queen," and Sayer manages to convince Allnut to aid the British war effort by constructing a torpedo to take out a German warship.
Includes featurette: Embracing chaos : making The African Queen.
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