The African Queen was a 1951 film adapted from a 1935 novel by  C. S. Forester. Directed by John Huston, the film starred Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.

Bogart won the 1952 Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 1994, the film was was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry; and the Library of Congress deemed it “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.

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