In Africa during WW1 circa 1914, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.
After religious spinster’s (Katharine Hepburn) missionary brother is killed in WWI Africa, dissolute steamer captain (Humphrey Bogart) offers her safe passage. She’s not satisfied so she persuades him to destroy a German gunboat. The two spend most of their time fighting with each other rather than the Germans. Time alone on the river leads to love.
“It is a picture with an unassuming warmth and naturalness…” – Variety
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley Rev., Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel.
Rated PG