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Post by mikef6 on Dec 23, 2017 15:31:39 GMT
Exactly sixty years ago today, on December 23, 1951, "The African Queen" premiered in Los Angeles, just in time to qualify the film for that year's Oscars. The Bogie-Hepburn classic would provide Humphrey Bogart with his only Oscar win. The Humphrey Bogart Estate, led by Stephen Humphrey Bogart (son of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall), hosts the annual Humphrey Bogart Film Festival at the Playa Largo Hotel in Key Largo every October. The 2018 Festival will honor the anniversary years of Key Largo and The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre. But most important for this thread: the real actual authentic honest-to-G-d boat from The African Queen is docked there and people can purchase an excursion on it during the festival. My nightly now-I-lay-me-down-to-sleep wish is that I can live long enough to get to this film festival at least once. Bogart was nominated for Best Actor two other times for: Casablanca (1943) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). For me, although he is beyond “Best” in the three already mentioned, he is even bestest in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Key Largo (1948). The Humphrey Bogart Film FestivalThe African Queen  Comparison Stephen Bogart  Humphrey Bogart  |
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Post by teleadm on Dec 23, 2017 18:03:46 GMT
It's a lovely movie, and a movie where opposites attracts.
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Post by claudius on Dec 23, 2017 20:27:15 GMT
Don't you mean 66 years ago today? We are in the seventh year of the 2010s; 60 years ago would be 1957.
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Post by louise on Dec 23, 2017 21:12:40 GMT
It's a very entertaining film.
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Post by mikef6 on Dec 23, 2017 22:36:28 GMT
Don't you mean 66 years ago today? We are in the seventh year of the 2010s; 60 years ago would be 1957. Yep, I got suckered by an old Facebook post that is, inexplicably, being sent around again. Occasionally, this will happen with a celebrity death that occurred several years ago and new RIP threads will pop up. I've been around these message boards almost from the beginning of the old boards so shouldn't have been so easily taken in. Oh, well. my thread was about Humphrey Bogart's legacy as much as about The African Queen, so I don't regret it. Thanks for the catch. |
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Post by petrolino on Dec 23, 2017 23:16:53 GMT
British film critic Barry Norman, for many years the televised face of film reviewing here in the U K, counted 'The African Queen' among his favourite movies. He absolutely loved it.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 24, 2017 0:42:38 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Dec 24, 2017 0:46:52 GMT
Perhaps THE most forever of my "forever movies". A MUST read for any one The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind by Katharine Hepburn Written in that idiosyncratic way that she speaks. It's like she is sitting next to you and telling just you the story. In it she reveals the real secret of why she got sick and Bogie and Huston did not, SHE drank contaminated bottled water and they did not. |
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Post by wmcclain on Dec 24, 2017 1:00:46 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Dec 24, 2017 1:36:59 GMT
Perhaps THE most forever of my "forever movies". A MUST read for any one The Making of the African Queen: Or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind by Katharine Hepburn Written in that idiosyncratic way that she speaks. It's like she is sitting next to you and telling just you the story. In it she reveals the real secret of why she got sick and Bogie and Huston did not, SHE drank contaminated bottled water and they did not. Ah, just like Ford getting sick in the first Indiana Jones film. Always with the adventure flicks. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 28, 2018 12:32:54 GMT
Just saw it this past week for the first time, this one's a real keeper!
Bogart deserved his Oscar, he becomes the part, totally believable and likeable.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 28, 2018 18:37:28 GMT
Just saw it this past week for the first time, this one's a real keeper! Bogart deserved his Oscar, he becomes the part, totally believable and likeable. At the risk of repeating myself, I do envy your getting to see these classics for the first time. And thanks for bumping this thread. I somehow missed it the first time, and I love the movie, too. It's a keeper for sure. And I also read the novel by C.S. Forester, which is was every bit as good as the film. Btw, for you information (because I don't know what you know), the screenplay was written by film critic and novelist James Agee, who also wrote the screenplay for The Night of the Hunter. I only just saw The Night of the Hunter back in November, good to know. I do feel like I've stumbled upon a treasure trove sometimes, one that was always there waiting for me! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2018 22:59:23 GMT
British film critic Barry Norman, for many years the televised face of film reviewing here in the U K, counted 'The African Queen' among his favourite movies. He absolutely loved it. "and why not?" |
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