Club Movie Night

Movie Night & Dinner -  Thursday, 15 August 2024 

Film: The African Queen 

The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester.

Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are British missionaries in German East Africa in August 1914. Their post and supplies are delivered by a small steamboat named the African Queen, helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian mechanic Charlie Allnut, whose coarse behaviour they stiffly tolerate.

When Charlie warns the Sayers that war has broken out between Germany and Britain, they choose to remain in Kungdu, only to witness German colonial troops burn down the village and herd the villagers away to be pressed into service. When Samuel protests, he is struck by a soldier and soon becomes delirious with fever, dying shortly afterward. Charlie helps Rose bury her brother and they escape in the African Queen.

The film stars Humphrey Bogart (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor, his only Oscar) and Katharine Hepburn with Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Walter Gotell, Richard Marner and Theodore Bikel.

The African Queen was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1994, and the Library of Congress deemed it "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."

RUN SCHEDULE

5:30pm - Order meals and optional drinks at Members Bar at own expense

6:00pm - Movie Starts

7:30pm - Intermission and Dinner Served

8:00pm - Movie Resumes

9:30pm - Movie Concludes

Dress Code: Club Casual

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