The African Queen - 5 stars out of 10
I love Humphrey Bogart and am glad that he won an Oscar, but he should have won for one of his "cool" characters (like in Casablanca), not for this. I have a hard time believing that this role beat Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. "The African Queen" is entertaining, particularly in the scene where Katharine Hepburn ignores Bogart, but other than a moment here or there it just didn't do it for me. Though it features two of the greatest actors of all time, a poor script makes it often feel overacted. Try it if you want but I can think of dozens of Classics that I would rather recommend to you ahead of this one.
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