The African Queen
1952 · 105 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 86,418 VOTES · DIR. John Huston
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 980 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:02:06 " Bread of heaven, bread of heaven... "
00:07:53 - Who's that, dear? - Surely you remember Herbie.
00:09:57 Yeah. Yeah, looks like it.
00:15:10 Give me a call... here, in England, at home.
00:20:17 Here we are safe and sound.
00:22:35 What are these long, round, torpedo-like things?
00:24:44 There ain't two hours of daylight.
00:28:21 - What is it? - Gin, miss.
00:34:07 What are you doing?
00:38:45 Now that I've had a taste of it
00:41:28 " Was the highly interesting song that he sung
00:44:58 Do you hear me? Don't you? Don't you?
00:48:52 Come here. Fire on the ship.
00:57:32 - Charlie. - Charlie.
01:02:15 While we wait, we could clean 'er bottom, paint 'er up.
01:05:01 Well. There.
01:09:20 We got away from them. You can come out now.
01:13:20 crazy as I am!
01:21:43 Rosie. Rosie, dear.
01:25:28 It's a case of have to.
01:28:02 Oh, Rosie, it's only that I just can't bear the thought of...
01:33:39 Who's that woman?
01:35:55 She sank in the storm.
01:40:01 # The wind, it began to blow... #
Cast & Characters
Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnutt
Katharine Hepburn
Rose Sayer
Robert Morley
Rev. Samuel Sayer - 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
Harry Arbour
German Sergeant Major at Kungdu
Errol John
Undetermined Role
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed980
Dialogue density9.3 lines / min
First line00:02:06
Final line01:40:01
Production Record
DirectorJohn Huston
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,000,000
Revenue$10,750,000
IMDb votes86,418