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Club Movie Night
Thu, 15 Aug
|Adelaide
Movie Night: The African Queen
Time & Location
15 Aug 2024, 5:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Adelaide, 111 Hutt St, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
About the event
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.
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