Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
- world war i
- faith
- africa
- missionary
- boat
- river
- hope
- patriotism
- hippopotamus
- giraffe
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut
Katharine Hepburn
Rose Sayer
Robert Morley
The Brother
Peter Bull
Captain of Louisa
- Theodore Bikel — First Officer
- Walter Gotell — Second Officer
- Peter Swanwick — First Officer of Shona
- Richard Marner — Second Officer of Shona
- Directed
- John Huston
- Written
- James Agee, John Huston
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 1,072 ratings
- Studio
- Romulus Films, Horizon Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
