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The African Queen
Adventure, Drama, Romance
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy charming old-Hollywood adventure built around prickly chemistry, resourceful survival, and gradual emotional transformation.
- Tone
- adventurous, romantic, uplifting
- Payoff
- inspiration, swoon
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- courage, unlikely partnership, faith, romance, perseverance
- Setting
- early twentieth-century wartime, remote tropical river and wilderness
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