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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx The African Queen is on the following AFI lists:The Original Top 100 (#17)100 Years...100 Passions (#14)100 Most Inspiring Movies (#48)The Revised Top 100 (#65) The African Queen is not available on DVD right now (I have no idea why), so I had to set about acquiring it. Through the internet. Yes. If you love this movie, though, you can go to Turner Classic Movies' website (www.tcm.com) and vote for the film in a sort of petition to get studios to publish some of these films on DVD. Also, join the "We'd Buy These If We Could" Spout group and tag or list the film appropriately. Spout says you can buy it from them, but I imagine it's a reservation at best. I would research that a little more before I paid for it. I'd watched this movie before when I was trying to make my way through the AFI lists. I liked ... "
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"Release Year: 1951Director: John Huston*****There is nothing I enjoy more, film wise, than watching two fantastic actors duke it out in a confined space. Films with that idea are few and far between these days since audiences tend to go for action spectacles. 12 Angry Men and The African Queen would never be made today. Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart take up the majority of the screen time here (well over 90% of this nearly 2 hour movie) with bookends involving other characters. The African Queen works based on the strength of both these actors and characters. Some people might think this story about a boat "captain" and the sole survivor of a German attack on an African village is cliched, that their falling in love is a given, that their "mission" (to destroy a German heavy cruiser) is all-but-certain to be successful. Know what? Those critics would be absolutely right. However, it's in the execution the story flourishes. The way Charlie (Bogart) calls Rosie (Hepb ... "
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"This being #17 on AFI's 100 Greatest American Films List, I purchased a Region-free, low-quality version off ebay. Apart from really having to forgive the plot's vast weaknesses, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn's performances last with you long after the DVD is back on the shelf. The scene where Bogey is tugging the Queen through shallow water and finds a nasty surprise awaiting him back on the ship is of particular note, as he hits a realism not seen often enough in films from this era. His infamous 'drunken' scene is a hoot, also. The ending is too abrupt, but apart from that, the experience will resurface in your mind a few days after viewing, begging you to watch it again. "
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"1. Jaws (1975)What more can be said about this film. This film never gets old, and it's still just as frightening today as it was on my first viewing. Unbelievable direction (understatement of the year).2. Fitzcarraldo (1982)The greatest scene in this film has a boat in it, but the boat is being pulled over a mountain (does that still count). An incredibly ambitious film about an incredibly ambitious man. 3. Lifeboat (1944)When the whole movie takes place in a life boat you better have a great story, and a great cast. Thankfully it's Hitchcock, so the tension and suspense is always building. 4. The African Queen (1951) Boogie and Hepburn on the run from German troupes. Battling crocodiles, rapids, and everything else that the African jungle throws at them. Huston makes a film that goes into my small list of perfect films. 5. Burden Of Dreams (1982)I'm gonna throw a curve ball here. Les Bank's documentary chronicling the production of Fitzcarraldo is a perfect exa ... "
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