‘The African Queen': A Bold Plan and an Unlikely Pairing

Two stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age pair off in a fun, adventurous drama.

Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn) begins to help Charlie Allnutt (Humphrey Bogart), in “The African Queen.” United Artists

NR | 1h 45m | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 1952

A little over four years ago, I reviewed two John Huston-directed classics starring the incomparable Humphrey Bogart: “The Maltese Falcon” (1941), a film-noir masterpiece, and “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948), a gripping tale of greed and survival.