The African Queen (1951) - Full Reaction
Added 2023-05-12 03:56:01 +0000 UTCEDIT 2: Okay, the issue has been fixed... sorry about that!
EDIT: YouTube is having issues processing my full length reactions again...
Again, not what I was expecting from this one haha from the cover I thought it would be like a scary movie! It took me a little while to acclimate to the tone/acting/pacing of an older movie like this, but once I was in it, it was a sweet and great story. Oh Rosie!
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"old girl" You are right that your reactions to some of these old movies do not get that many views. This reaction to The African Queen has 55k on YT. Your reaction to Roman Holiday (one of my favorites) has 60K views. Casablanca reaction has 287k views. That's solid. This channel has more reactions to old movies (pre-1960) than other channels. Here, can get reactions to 5-6 old movies per year.
Clay F
2024-02-05 10:08:23 +0000 UTCDefinitely have to put On Golden Pond for Katherine Hepburn but don't forget about Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
CG Shunk
2023-05-19 16:26:13 +0000 UTCAnother great Katherine Hepburn movie is The Lion in Winter. Incredible cast all around in that film.
Neill Shaughness
2023-05-18 01:39:56 +0000 UTCYou have plenty of classics lovers here that appreciate your reactions to the greats from the golden age.
Neill Shaughness
2023-05-18 01:39:15 +0000 UTCFull disclosure my 1st time seeing this in full and I really enjoyed it. Thanks to the guy that recommended it and to all the voters
Sam R.
2023-05-17 00:04:50 +0000 UTCGlad you gave African Queen a chance. If you ever get around to "The Court Jester" it would really make my month.
Jonathan Hall
2023-05-15 02:04:16 +0000 UTCJust FYI: Katharine Hepburn has won the most academy awards for best actress, 4 times. Incredibly, she was nominated for best actress 9 times. Even cooler, IMO, she never attended the Oscars. I believe Cassie has seen "On golden pond" - she played the wife in that piece of movie perfection. And please explain to me how in the world in the western movie polls, that Rooster Cogburn has not even been mentioned here on PIB?
Steve Barrett
2023-05-14 16:42:51 +0000 UTCGlad issues involving sound have been resolved.
Danny T
2023-05-14 14:16:55 +0000 UTCHEY— THIS IS FANTASTIC!! I lobbied for this movie back when it came up on the first classic movie poll, and then kind of ranted about the disrespect it got in the voting. I seriously didn’t think this movie was ever going to see the light of day with this generation of movie mavens. Very happy to be proven wrong! Kudos to Cassie, and anybody else involved with choosing this flick for a viewing…
Shaun Stuart
2023-05-14 12:30:14 +0000 UTCI have always loved Katharine Hepburn. Cassie, put On Golden Pond on your to do list. Hepburn with Henry and Jane Fonda. Wonderful film!!
Kat Farlowe
2023-05-14 05:08:31 +0000 UTCAhh, Kate. They don't make them like her anymore. Highly recommend "The Lion in Winter" and "On Golden Pond" (both of which are plays made into a movie, so they're all really dialogue and acting heavy, like "Steel Magnolias" and "A Few Good Men")
Singing Wordwright
2023-05-13 17:58:03 +0000 UTCActually Bacall made plenty of films afterwards, right up to her passing. She played James Caan's agent in "Misery"
Jake McNulty
2023-05-13 10:47:34 +0000 UTCwhen they were filming in Africa, Huston and Bogart were the only two who didn't get dysentery... why?... it was attributed to the vast amounts of alcohol the two consumed. I think even Lauren Bacall got sick. Who's she? She wasn't in the movie. She was an actress married to Humphrey Bogart, and they were one of Hollywood's true love stories. She was devastated when the cancer took him. Bogart and Bacall were together in "To Have and Have Not", "Key Largo", "Dark Passage", and "The Big Sleep". Lauren Bacall lingered on for years w/o Bogie, finally passing away in 2014. I believe her last movie was the movie, "The Shootist", which was also John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart's last movie (you remember them from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance?).
Jim Williams
2023-05-13 09:20:44 +0000 UTCIt might have helped to think of The African Queen as a Firefly class transport... Rose being one of the first browncoats :)
Jim Williams
2023-05-13 07:26:52 +0000 UTCGrowing up, my mom's family referred to her as "Katherine Hepburn", because she was such a strong-willed independent girl. I found the comparison hilarious, because A) my mom had far more character than Katherine Hepburn, B) my mom was way prettier and C) my mom was like 4'11" (just under 150cm?) and Hepburn was like... really tall.
Jim Williams
2023-05-13 07:01:39 +0000 UTCI can understand you not liking Bogart... but in his defense, this is a very different character for him. This isn't the slick Rick from Casablanca, or Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. This is closer to his character from Key Largo... only more blue-collar.
Jim Williams
2023-05-13 06:57:21 +0000 UTCoh, btw... normally I don't like your patreon reactions, because I never have the movie you're reacting to... but oh yeah, I got The African Queen...
Jim Williams
2023-05-13 06:47:52 +0000 UTCDear Cassie, I want to thank you for reacting to The African Queen. I haven't watched the reaction yet, but I've wanted to see your reaction to it for a long time. As I kept telling you, I think it's a romantic adventure for ordinary people. Rosie and Charlie are the kind of people you meet every day. It's like Rocky; Stallone looked like a guy from the hood, not some movie star acting like a guy from the hood. And I think the movie didn't foreshadow their romance as much as modern movies would. Sometimes in a modern movie, you can predict almost immediately that there's going to be a romance. And their romance was, for me, more believable. This is how people who come to love one another act, they don't keep trying to swallow each other's tonsils! Thank you again for reacting to this!
Jim Williams
2023-05-13 06:46:38 +0000 UTCshe was *fantastic* in "The Lion in Winter"... I went from wanting to strangle her to wanting to cry for her... and back again. She was such a deep, complex, damaged character and she played it so well.
Jim Williams
2023-05-13 06:37:48 +0000 UTCWow. Great movie. Great reaction. Hope I get to see Cassie react to Bogart playing Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon.
Uncle Phoenix
2023-05-13 04:04:58 +0000 UTCCassie made me spit out yogurt when they "locked lips" and then faded to black and Cassie yells out "hey show us more!"
Anthony Perez
2023-05-13 01:13:16 +0000 UTCI barely remember any of this movie. I watched it a long time ago on TV with my dad when I was very young. Sweet movie. Thanks for taking me back. Great reaction. I was worried you would not remember Bogart. I should have known better. You are getting good at recognizing actors. I am enjoying revisiting these old classics and you have even introduced me to some new classics I have never seen before. I am enjoying this journey with you. And it is nice when Carly comes along for the ride. The more. The merrier.
Rick Williams
2023-05-13 00:59:17 +0000 UTCWhile there are certainly a lot of great Katharine Hepburn films you should see (BRINGING UP BABY, ADAM'S RIB and PHILADELPHIA STORY among them), you might also be interested in a film that features her as a character being played by someone else... Cate Blanchett (for which she won an Oscar). I am talking, of course, about Martin Scorsese's biopic THE AVIATOR with Leo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes. Highly recommended.
Stick Figure Studios
2023-05-13 00:49:30 +0000 UTCAnd maybe someday we’ll get a TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE reaction, which has the same star(Bogart) and same director (John Huston). I think this one won the poll because of the adorable love story.
Alex Villarreal
2023-05-12 22:47:59 +0000 UTCHepburn is our very best and my favorite (along with Peter O'Toole). I recommend Lion in Winter, Philadelphia Story, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. The ending of this has always been a little ludicrous to me, but the film as a whole is excellent and incredibly sweet. The filming process is definitely impressive. The producer, Sam Spiegel, was also responsible for Lawrence of Arabia, probably to this day the most incredible picture I've ever seen, also filmed on location and another I can't recommend enough.
China Andronicus
2023-05-12 21:53:29 +0000 UTCI think that’s a great idea.
Just Plain Bob
2023-05-12 21:40:29 +0000 UTCMaybe you could incorporate a regular classics slot into your channel schedule. Like you say in your intro, they rarely win the polls and don't get so many views, but you always enjoy them and there's such a rich history to explore. It would be nice to see you get more opportunities to discover them.
Henry Graham
2023-05-12 21:39:26 +0000 UTCI’ll have to check this one out, never see. It. Was hoping Enemy at the gates would be today!
Brandon
2023-05-12 21:35:31 +0000 UTCIn his autobiography John Huston wrote that he reminded Kathrine Hepburn that her character was a lady who’s position in society was much more established than Bogart’s character. He assured her there was no need to talk down to Bogart's character. Just as there is no need for someone of good character to talk down to someone who works for them or serves them in some way.
Steve Holton
2023-05-12 20:40:44 +0000 UTCIt took Hepburn a while to find her character. I've read that early in the filming she was coming off as a snob. Huston suggested she take cues from Eleanor Roosevelt to find the proper tone.
BRT
2023-05-12 20:27:10 +0000 UTCI'm so tempted to watch this but I really dislike Bogart. I mean, a lot. I may have to wait for the shorter, youtube version. That might be as much Bogart as I can take. Hepburn is amazing though.
Walter
2023-05-12 19:22:34 +0000 UTCNow that I have seen the reaction, I'm so glad Cassie liked this charming picture. It does my heart good to watch one of my old screen favorites with Cassie. And once again, the Katherine Hepburn pictures I would most want her to see are BRINGING UP BABY (1938) with Cary Grant, a screwball comedy, and THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) with Cary Grant and James Stewart, a sophisticated comedy, the kind they don't make anymore, known in the day as a drawing room comedy. And there were a string of films she made with Spencer Tracey, all roughly in the romcom genre. Hepburn/Tracey were one of the great screen couples like Astaire/Rogers and Flynn/de Havilland. And as Cassie has only seen one of these great screen couples (Flynn/de Havilland in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD) she should see more of them.
MikeLL
2023-05-12 19:08:59 +0000 UTCA lot of hard work goes into this channel, and thank you and your small team for all these reactions and PIB-related events. It’s a really fun way to spend the time!
Alex Villarreal
2023-05-12 18:29:52 +0000 UTCCassie, thank you old girl for fixing that!
R Harper
2023-05-12 18:24:47 +0000 UTCKatherine Hepburn is the actor with the most acting Oscars that anyone else with 4 wins. She won her first Oscar in the early 1930s and her last one in the early 1980s. (Today is Hepburn’s birthday!)
Alex Villarreal
2023-05-12 18:03:10 +0000 UTCSummertime would be a fun movie for Cassie to watch!
Alex Villarreal
2023-05-12 18:01:22 +0000 UTCnow that makes sense!!
Cassie
2023-05-12 17:48:26 +0000 UTCPoor brother Samuel looks like he suffered from acute malaria,I'll come back to watch later💜I'm back,going to restart and watch,thanks for fixing the audio malfunction Cassie👍👍for some classic Katherine Hepburn 'The Philadelphia Story' w/James Stewart and Cary Grant..'The Lion in Winter' 1968..'Adams Rib' and 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' w/Spencer Tracy..TALLY HOO!!!!
Celeste McAllister
2023-05-12 14:56:00 +0000 UTCAnd thank you for suggesting it!
MikeLL
2023-05-12 13:12:55 +0000 UTCInteresting way to put two movies together!
Ben Livingstone
2023-05-12 09:58:16 +0000 UTCThe African Queen is now stationed in Key Largo, Florida, and can be reserved for cruises.
Kevin Townsend
2023-05-12 09:29:14 +0000 UTCDisappointed that Cassie didn’t recognize Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca until the end. Perhaps she thought he was Ed Harris.😂
Just Plain Bob
2023-05-12 08:56:42 +0000 UTCFor most older classic movies, it's an acquired taste. You have to consider it a different art form, sort of like a live play, and generally the older the movie the more play-like they are. There's also the more propaganda inclined films during the second world war which had their own strong emotional and patriotic tone. Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Casablanca were like that, blended with romance. The African Queen has that kind of feel (with tattered Union Jack flag flapping in the wind) even though it was post war.
Lloyd Jacobs
2023-05-12 08:07:53 +0000 UTCMy favorite Katherine Hepburn movie is probably "Summertime". Made by the same guy who did "Lawrence of Arabia" and is set in Italy and shot on glorious technicolor.
Johnny Liu
2023-05-12 07:59:17 +0000 UTCThanks for watching this, Cassie! I really enjoyed the reaction. It's good to hear you're doing Sierra Madre sometime! Couple things. The original book had them failing, and we find out Allnutt already has a wife. It's a total downer. They were going to do that with the movie too, but the chemistry between Bogart and Hepburn made the film a comedy, and Huston realized he had to give it a new ending, which I like a lot better. Every time I see Katherine Hepburn in this, I notice more little gracenotes in her performance. That was close to her real way of speaking, too, even though she was an American. It's called the "Transatlantic" or "Midatlantic" accent. It was taught by elocution teachers back then, and a lot of Hollywood used it--but not only Hollywood. I grew up with old movies, so it's never seemed strange to me. A big part of the movie is a clash of cultures. She's a stiff, upperclass Methodist, and he's a boozing, disreputable river-bum. We had to see him trying and failing to fit into her conventional background--a culture too stiff even to allow for natural abdominal noises--before we see her fitting into his life on the African Queen. There, she finally opens her wings, truly living for the first time. As they fall in love, Charlie finds himself changing along with her. It was a real departure for Hollywood to produce a great romance with two sweaty, unwashed leading players. It's good to know that it can still warm the hearts of new viewers, as it has over the decades since it was released. Thanks again, and happy watching!
Ben Livingstone
2023-05-12 07:16:33 +0000 UTCSigh. I love this movie. In the chistmas~y way.
jason
2023-05-12 07:16:26 +0000 UTCA lovely movie that was apparently total hell to make. If you liked this once you would *adore* "The Man Who Would Be King" which is one of Hughes' later films. A Pacier, superb adventure story, with Sean Connery and Michael Caine. A proper old school epic.
Dryfesands
2023-05-12 06:44:35 +0000 UTCForget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
Brent Petty
2023-05-12 05:49:15 +0000 UTCI just watched a few minutes of the reaction until I noticed the audio mixup. I'll come back and watch the rest tomorrow. I'll see tomorrow if Cassie remembers seeing Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca as Rick, the owner of the nightclub. This is the movie he won his Best Actor Oscar for, but I believe this was one of those "career achievement" Oscars. Though this is a very warm and entertaining performance, I believe he gave his best acting performance in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. I mentioned it in the Upcoming post, that Katherine Hepburn is no relation to Audrey Hepburn, but was the winner of more Best Actress Oscars than any other actress. She was nominated for this picture, and won Best Actress in 1933, 1967, 1968, and 1981. Funny, touching, and still dramatic, this was a winning combination in a very entertaining package. And it is a war movie of a sorts, one of the few first World War movies on the channel. Sergeant York (1941) would be another great first World War movie. Other great movies directed by John Houston are the aforementioned Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Chinatown (1974) with a non scary Jack Nicholson.
MikeLL
2023-05-12 04:56:35 +0000 UTCmy dad's favorite movie, also Walt Disney designed the Jungle Cruise boats from the African Queen
zynjams
2023-05-12 04:54:20 +0000 UTCThere is a really good behind the scenes making of The African Queen on Youtube.
Tommy.J
2023-05-12 04:43:32 +0000 UTCI’m settling in for a late night, early morning watch of a great movie with my favorite reviewer. You mentioned seeing a sheep in the intro. Having experienced many a harrowing livestock sneak attack as a young wee lad, I looked up to see if you were ok. I am saddened to see your sleeves show the signs of either a briar patch escape or you fell prey to the sheep’s fangs and talons. So sorry. Next time in a pasture, please consider denim or anything other than wool.
Charles Woolman
2023-05-12 04:37:45 +0000 UTCi’ve got bad memories associated with this film so i’ll be skipping it, but I hope you truly enjoyed it.
djKENTO
2023-05-12 04:26:51 +0000 UTCI'm have the same issue as It's Me Dave
David Freese
2023-05-12 04:18:17 +0000 UTCIt seems to be at around the 19-minute mark.
Jesus F Christ
2023-05-12 04:13:36 +0000 UTCNo audio after the first few minutes....
Dave
2023-05-12 04:08:48 +0000 UTCOne of my first memories of this film is watching it in reverse. My parents let me sleep in their room for some reason, and if I laid in just the right position, I had a perfect view of the living-room TV reflected in the kitchen stove. I watched the whole movie that way, while they thought I was asleep.
Ben Livingstone
2023-05-12 03:58:10 +0000 UTC
