Story Line
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.
“The greatest adventure a man ever lived… with a woman!”
Top Cast
Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut
Katharine Hepburn
Rose Sayer
Robert Morley
The Brother
Peter Bull
Captain of Louisa
Theodore Bikel
First Officer
Walter Gotell
Second Officer
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Rating
7.4/ 10
Release Date
1952-01-07
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
RomanceAdventureDrama
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
10/10
•3/15/2019Giants of the silver screen delivering one giant of a movie.
WW1, East Africa, after her brother is killed by invading German troops, Rose Sayer is reliant on gruff steamboat captain, Charlie Allnut, to ferry her safely out of harms way and back...
CinemaSerf
8/10
•1/7/2023Saw this at the BFI in London recently and it looks superb on a big screen. Essentially a two-hander with screen legends Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn who have to escape the approaching WWI German East African forces by sailing down a river o...
Filipe Manuel Neto
6/10
•10/22/2023**A film too American in an Africa still dominated by Europeans.**
The film is set in colonial Africa during the First World War, near the Lake Tanganyika area, where the borders of the colonies of Rhodesia (British), Belgian Congo and Tanganyika ...