This movie is set at the start of World War I, in a small African village. Kathryn Hepburn plays Rose, a stuffy, high society woman, that has accompanied her missionary brother, to Africa. When the war starts, the Germans invade the village and burn it all down. Rose's brother has a mental breakdown and dies. Rose is forced to take the only transportation that there is to get off the island. It is a broken down steamship, owned and captained by Charlie Allnut, called the African Queen. Along the way, Rose and Charlie get into many fights, but eventually they fall in love. They plan to steam down the river to the lake, where they plan to torpedo the large German warship that patrols there. They face rapids, storms, and alligators along the way. When they get to the lake a storm causes the African Queen to sink and they get captured, but the German warship hits the torpedoes that they left sticking out of the African Queen, as it is laying in the water capsized. The German warship blows up and Rose and Charlie escape and swim for the Eastern shore.
I enjoyed this movie a lot. There was never really any dull moments in the movie, because the whole movie showed them traveling and building the torpedoes. I would definitely recommend this movie, although I feel that the ending was too abrupt. It was also kind of funny to see how they shot some of the special effects back in 1951. Some of them looked really fake, compared to movies today.
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