The African Queen, National Film Theatre, Sunday Nov. 26
Green screen effects and obvious quarter-size boat model outfitted with Bogie and Hepburn dolls going through what was probably a small creek somewhere were laffable but the movie generates such goodwill that it almost felt right that Huston would apply the same shoestring, can-do, half-assed attitude towards his film that Bogie does to his boat. “Why don’t you take apart the valve in your engine and remove the screwdriver that got stuck in there?” asks Hepburn. “Because then I wouldn’t get to kick it when it acted up.” Second-best line, spoken with German accent: “I now pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.”
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