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  • @dwmadroxxide5090
    @dwmadroxxide5090 3 дні тому +18

    The Caine Mutiny is another great Bogey flick if you get a chance to watch it.

  • @Faroutamazingadventures
    @Faroutamazingadventures 3 дні тому +3

    Court, thanks for sharing this! This is one of my favorite movies! I’m so glad you reacted to this movie especially, older movies. There are sooo many people especially UA-cam reactors that absolutely will not watch old movies… some go as far as say that they won’t watch any movie past 1975.. I hear that so many times! You ought to watch some James Stewart movies like Vertigo, Rope, The FBI Story, Rear Window and many more!

  • @gregoryeatroff8608
    @gregoryeatroff8608 3 дні тому +2

    "I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!"
    I always loved that line.

  • @cjmacq-vg8um
    @cjmacq-vg8um 3 дні тому +4

    bogart is THE man! he's my favorite actor. there's just something about his screen persona that DEMANDS attention. your eyes are always drawn to him and your ears perk up at his distictive voice. there's too many GREAT bogart films to list here but i'm compelled to list a few....
    "dead end" (1937),
    "the roaring twenties" (1939),
    "sahara" (1943),
    "the treasure of the sierra madre" (1948),
    "key largo" (1948),
    "the caine mutiny" (1954),
    and "the desperate hours (1955).
    and i can name 10 more great bogart films on top of those. thanks for the video

  • @ammaleslie509
    @ammaleslie509 3 дні тому +6

    My mom loved this movie and was fond of other Hepburn movies as well: the Philadelphia Story, Bringing up Baby, Adam's Rib, Desk Set, etc.

    • @flarrfan
      @flarrfan 2 дні тому +1

      :Philadelphia Story brings together Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Hepburn in an absolutely delightful story.

  • @mikecaetano
    @mikecaetano 3 дні тому +6

    Although the African Queen leaves its specific setting vague, what was German East Africa is today Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania. Another Bogart in Africa film is Sahara (1943), set in Libya during WWII. And another Bogart in the jungle film is Passage to Marseille (1944), set in French Guiana during WWII. And yet another entertaining Bogart in WWII film is All Through the Night (1942), a comedy set in New York City. And a few more films featuring Bogart in supporting and leading roles that deserve mention are The Roaring Twenties (1939), They Drive by Night (1940), In a Lonely Place (1950), and Bogart's last film The Harder They Fall (1956).

  • @custardflan
    @custardflan 3 дні тому +9

    "I pronounce you man and wide. Proceed with the execution." I'd love to hear this at an actual wedding.

  • @thomastimlin1724
    @thomastimlin1724 3 дні тому +4

    Come on, give it up for Bogart, he won an Oscar for this performance . He started out acting on stage. The teaming of these two was pure magic.

  • @NickDanger-k2x
    @NickDanger-k2x 3 дні тому +9

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Bogart

  • @rg3388
    @rg3388 3 дні тому +2

    The single word "Dear" speaks volumes. This primed me to appreciate a similar use of the same word in HOWARDS END.

  • @MuncleJim
    @MuncleJim 2 дні тому +1

    This was one of my mother’s favorite movies and I remember her renting the VHS tape back in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s. One night she asked me to watch it with her …now at the time I was a precocious teenager and still in high school so obviously the last thing I wanted to do was sit down and watch some old movie with my mother. LOL
    She is no longer with us so I guess it’s a testament to her and the impression this movie made on me that I still remember that night All these years later.

    • @isoldejaneholland8370
      @isoldejaneholland8370 2 дні тому

      Mmm, I also have some sweet memories of watching classic movies with my mother, grandmother and sister. Adolescents adore Bogart because he's the epitome of cool. I was about 12-13 the first time I saw him, and it launched a love of old-timey film that persists to this day.

  • @FilmBuff54
    @FilmBuff54 2 дні тому +1

    One of the sweetest movies ever made, and the only time Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart ever made a movie together.

  • @eblackadder3
    @eblackadder3 2 дні тому +1

    Other Bogart films I'd recommend are Sahara (1943) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). Other films with Katherine Hepburn: The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942) and Adam's Rib (1949)

  • @DerekSansone
    @DerekSansone 3 дні тому +9

    SO glad you circled back on "The African Queen" after Casablanca. I LOVE this movie. Charlie & Rosie - Heroes of World War 1 (The African Front). Was a nice touch when Charlie thought "The Queen" should look her best as she was representing The Royal Navy. This movie is a lot of fun.

    • @Rickkennett143
      @Rickkennett143 3 дні тому +1

      Although by 1914 there was such a thing as the Canadian navy too.

    • @DerekSansone
      @DerekSansone 3 дні тому +1

      @@Rickkennett143 Of course there was. But, that wasn't the line.

    • @Rickkennett143
      @Rickkennett143 3 дні тому

      @@DerekSansone True. And to be honest there was little involvement by the Canadian navy on the African front during WWI. It's just that Charlie being a Canadian ... you know?

    • @DerekSansone
      @DerekSansone 2 дні тому

      @@Rickkennett143 Yup, for sure. Charlie was Canadian, Rosie was English. As the mission was Rosie's idea, I always figured that's why the Union Jack when up on "The Queen." I just love their last request (to be married before being hung) to the German Captain. I read a book abt the African Front in WW1. I don't recall any Canadian involvement there (especially that early in the war). Perhaps later, I really don't know. Brits, Indian, S. African, Portuguese, German, Askari & Kings Africa Rifles for sure. Bush war very different than the trenches of the Western Front.

  • @RetroRobotRadio
    @RetroRobotRadio 2 дні тому +2

    Love this movie and Sahara, both with Humphrey Bogart.

  • @mykecoburn9974
    @mykecoburn9974 2 дні тому +1

    In my opinion, "The Big Sleep" is the best Bogart movie of all time. Right up there with "Casablanca", "Dark Passage", and "The Maltese Falcon.

  • @thomasoa
    @thomasoa 3 дні тому +2

    This was the first Hepburn movie I ever saw, in a double feature with another great one, The Lion in Winter, at a college classic films theater.

  • @bf3and4highlights83
    @bf3and4highlights83 3 дні тому +5

    This movie touches on why Africa had such a hard time developing. Navigable rivers. Africa basically doesn't have any. This severely impeded the flow of goods that also allows the flow of ideas and cultures as well. No one would invest as there was no way to get low priced bulk commodities to the coast.

  • @jimglenn6972
    @jimglenn6972 3 дні тому +1

    I saw one of the movie “African Queens” on a small dock in the Florida Key. Quite something.

  • @lino9222
    @lino9222 3 дні тому +2

    This is one of my favorite old films Thank you great reaction

  • @thomasoa
    @thomasoa 3 дні тому +4

    IMDB doesn't classify it as one, but I think this is one of the great romantic comedies.

  • @custardflan
    @custardflan 3 дні тому +2

    I love that yhe rain falls on the flowers that they named and then flows downstream to save them. It's like God honors their love in a swer to her prayer.

  • @jefetters7182
    @jefetters7182 2 дні тому

    I love this movie. Thank you so much for sharing this, you really brought me joy this evening.

  • @rocketdave719
    @rocketdave719 3 дні тому +1

    These two did a lot of great films, but as far as recommendations go, my two favorite Bogart movies are To Have and Have Not and Key Largo, both of which co-star Lauren Bacall, while my two favorite Katharine Hepburn movies are Bringing Up Baby and Holiday (1938), both of which co-star Cary Grant.

  • @ronp1903
    @ronp1903 2 дні тому

    That was a great reaction, Court! And this is one of my favorite Bogey movies. A couple I would like to suggest are, 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' & 'Sahara'. Two great stories of adventure and intrigue. Thanks for sharing your reactions and I'm looking forward to your next flick 🎥🍿😊

  • @melenatorr
    @melenatorr 20 годин тому

    10:21 - you do realize she had just been awakened and hadn't yet registered the rain, just his being there, and that, again, she is a very conservatively raised, religious, sheltered character at this point.

  • @kirkdarling4120
    @kirkdarling4120 3 дні тому +2

    Rose turned down the gin because she's a Christian missionary...a "teetotaler" (non-drinker). BTW, that water can't be directly drunk. It's either got to be mixed with the alcohol of the gin or boiled for tea to make it safe to drink.

  • @bazkeen
    @bazkeen 3 дні тому +1

    52 years later Keira Knightley sort of reenacts the sceen of pouring out the booze in Pirates Of The Caribbean. African Queen is such a classic

  • @vincentsaia6545
    @vincentsaia6545 3 дні тому +1

    A true classic. Bogart won his only Oscar for this picture. Hope you see more of Kate's movies.

  • @socalpaul487
    @socalpaul487 2 дні тому

    Such a great movie. Next, I recommend "Sahara" 1943.
    Here's some other older classics.
    For some older classics, I recommend "Boys Town" 1938, "The Grapes of Wrath" 1940, "Sahara" 1943, "Lifeboat" 1944, "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" 1947, "Harvey" 1950, "The African Queen" 1951, "Bad Day at Black Rock" 1955, "The Spirit of St. Louis" 1957, "Lilies of the Field" 1963, "Fail-Safe" 1964, "The Flight of the Phoenix" 1965. "To Sir, With Love 1967".

  • @melenatorr
    @melenatorr 19 годин тому

    The African Queen is to Charlie and Rosie as the Enterprise is to her crew and as the Blues Mobile is to Elwood Blues. They love and will do anything for them that loves them!
    Welcome to Katharine Hepburn - you need to see more of her - watch, oh, "Philadelphia Story" and "The Lion in Winter", those are two good powerhouse performances. For "Philadelphia Story": she was labelled Box Office Poison after a few duds, so she went out of Hollywood to Broadway, found this play and acted in it, building the character and re-building her reputation. She was instrumental in bringing the script to back to Hollywood and in the casting, choice of director, and the the production. All the choices were brilliant, and the movie brought her back to stardom. Like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwyck .... and yes, Olivia de Havilland, Hepburn was a fighter who knew her worth.

  • @auntvesuvi3872
    @auntvesuvi3872 День тому

    Thanks, Courtney! 🚤 I love this one so much. I watched it at my mother's recommendation when I was a young teen. I hope to see the 4K version someday. 🔸 Since you mentioned that this is the first you've seen with Ms. Hepburn, be sure to check out THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940), THE LION IN WINTER (1968) and ON GOLDEN POND (1981).

  • @stevenhobbs709
    @stevenhobbs709 День тому

    “White Hunter Black Heart” is based on making the movie, and the obsession involved.

  • @jlovebirch
    @jlovebirch 2 дні тому

    The Philadelphia Story (1940) has Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart at their very best.

  • @melenatorr
    @melenatorr 20 годин тому

    8:51 - no, it's because he's drinking gin: remember she is the sister of a preacher, a very strict, conservative, sheltered upbringing and she does NOT approve of alcohol. Mr. Allnut, of course, has no problem...

  • @Bonzo57601
    @Bonzo57601 3 дні тому +3

    Classic movie

  • @michaelsommers5503
    @michaelsommers5503 3 дні тому +1

    Glad you enjoyed this movie! Looking forward to seeing you react so insightfully to other 1930s-1940s-1950s films. Bogie is terrific, of course, but I suspect you are about to become a huge fan of the great Katharine Hepburn, who specialized in depicting spirited women. Just for fun and as a contrast, you might check out Hepburn's performance as a dizzy heiress in the 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (with Cary Grant plus a leopard and some great character actors).

  • @badplay156
    @badplay156 3 дні тому +2

    For Katherine Hepburn you could watch On Golden Pond (Henry Fonda, Katherine Hepburn and Jane Fonda), for early Katherine Hepburn Bringing Up Baby (screwball comedy). For Bogart , Casablanca, Key Largo, the Maltese Falcon)

    • @wsw32606
      @wsw32606 3 дні тому +1

      Key Largo is a great movie.

    • @alansorensen5903
      @alansorensen5903 3 дні тому +1

      All great. My favorite whodunit is Bogart's The Big Sleep. He's in every scene per Raymond Chandler's classic novel.

    • @isoldejaneholland8370
      @isoldejaneholland8370 2 дні тому

      Bringing up Baby is fun, - psst, the pet leopard is the real star.

  • @terrymitchell6935
    @terrymitchell6935 3 дні тому

    Great movie! I have only seen it 40+ times!

  • @joonaa2751
    @joonaa2751 3 дні тому +1

    A Canadian guy who sounds like he’s from New York, falls in love with a British woman who has an upper class New England accent😅
    In any case, a great adventure movie.

    • @craigorr9713
      @craigorr9713 3 дні тому +1

      I have heard her accent called "Middle of the Atlantic." Not quite English & not quite American.

  • @isoldejaneholland8370
    @isoldejaneholland8370 2 дні тому

    Most of this movie was shot on location, with accomodations so basic that Katherine Hepburn's bathroom facilities consisted of a bucket with "Miss Hepburn" written on it. (Crew members had to share a bucket; oh, these pampered Hollywood stars.😏)
    To be honest, I always found KH brittle and grating in her earlier films, - this was
    the first time I understood how she could be a movie star. This and The Lion in Winter*(1967) are my favorite KH movies.
    *She played Eleanor of Aquitaine, and what a cast: Peter O'Toole, Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton.

  • @shelbynamels7948
    @shelbynamels7948 День тому

    If you enjoy the setting and the WW I wartime drama, I recommend 'Shout At The Devil", with Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, and, almost unrecognizable as a local native, Alec Guiness.

  • @WonderGeology
    @WonderGeology 16 годин тому

    LOVE Kate Hepburn!! She was a very independent woman in a time when it was not cool to be a woman and so independent! My two favorite movies of hers: True Grit (western with John Wayne) and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy (his last movie- she and Tracy were lovers)). Other movies Bringing Up Baby (with Cary Grant), Lion In Winter, and the wonderful On Golden Pond (tissues warranted) with Henry Fonda!

  • @no_rubbernecking
    @no_rubbernecking 2 дні тому

    Katharine Hepburn: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    After that, make sure not to miss Bogart in Dark Victory and Sabrina.

  • @richardpetty9159
    @richardpetty9159 3 дні тому +2

    I've loved this film ever since I was a kid in the 60's.
    Nowaday, I'm a Bogart fan.
    As far as Hepburn goes, she is just awesome. I recommend "The Lion in Winter," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "Adam's Rib," "Woman of the Year."

    • @isoldejaneholland8370
      @isoldejaneholland8370 2 дні тому

      Yes! Her Eleanor of Aquitaine is so epic that if I could time travel for a moment and meet the real queen, she would probably be a disappointment after KH's version.

  • @acidbotgd5018
    @acidbotgd5018 3 дні тому

    Great movie, great reaction!

  • @im-gi2pg
    @im-gi2pg 2 години тому

    I’m glad you saw the positive in the beautiful melanin and called out the missionaries for trying to convert people. It was an old movie and I cringe at the beginning but you saw the humanity of the local tribal people. They lived simply and close to nature. No one deserves their homes burned down by invaders.

  • @albertlachapelle3362
    @albertlachapelle3362 3 дні тому +1

    📍 You just walked into something with this one, an argument could be made for Catherine Hepburn as America’s all-time greatest actors.

  • @texasdustfart
    @texasdustfart День тому

    Very nice reaction.

  • @Bitternov
    @Bitternov 2 дні тому

    In my top five movies. Brilliant. I never tire of it. And Bogart is the best. Caine Mutiny. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

  • @bentels5340
    @bentels5340 3 дні тому

    FYI, captain Allnut is right about those rivers. John Kirk and David Livingstone found about them the hard way.
    Is that the Livingstone from "dr. Livingstone, I presume?" you ask? Why, yes it is. 😀
    9:08 Actually, if she had really been there for ten years, she would have known better than getting into the river.
    30:53 "On Golden Pond" is a far better lake movie starring Katherine Hepburn.

  • @dbitgood1
    @dbitgood1 3 дні тому

    I think Bogie won an Oscar for this one.

  • @MrRizzo1961
    @MrRizzo1961 3 дні тому

    2 more Katherine Hepburn movies to see: 1. Guess who's coming to dinner. 2. Rooster Cogburn and the lady with John Wayne as Marshall Rooster Cogurn charter from True grit.✌️❤️

  • @albertlachapelle3362
    @albertlachapelle3362 3 дні тому

    📍 is this the original formula for the action movie, I feel like Hollywood has reused this formula 1000 times since, love your channel

  • @gregoryeatroff8608
    @gregoryeatroff8608 3 дні тому

    There was a similar real incident in the American Civil War. The Confederates built an ironclad warship, the CSS Albermarle, strongest ship on the river -- no Union warship in the area could hurt it. The Albermarle chased off the Union squadron and with its help the rebels recaptured Plymouth, North Carolina. Some of the soldiers in the garrison were USCTs (black soldiers), and after Confederates recaptured the town they murdered about 100 black PoWs and civilians. So a US Navy officer, Lieutenant William B. Cushing, took a steam launch up the river to sink it with a spar torpedo. I've always wished someone would do a movie about Cushing's mission. I wrote a film treatment for a class in college, deliberately Hollywooding things up and making it unrealistic, with the non-fiction half of the paper being written as a scathing film review that focused on the historical inaccuracies of the "movie" I'd written for the first half of the assignment.

  • @j5429280
    @j5429280 3 дні тому

    check out on golden pond with henry fonda and katherine hepern they won golden awards like they won oscars for this film

  • @tiglath40
    @tiglath40 3 дні тому

    You should watch philadelphia story for another hepburn movie. Of couse adam's rib is pretty good too..

  • @poliveri0722
    @poliveri0722 2 дні тому

    @ 8:00 ... the sinful evils of alcohol ...

  • @DEWwords
    @DEWwords 3 дні тому

    HEPBURN: LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER/ BOGART: THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE MALTESE FALCON, THE BIG SLEEP, KEY LARGO.

  • @MaestroDrake
    @MaestroDrake 3 дні тому

    Check out Robert Sacchi Jungle Queen, it's a music video, when you can.

  • @mattx449
    @mattx449 3 дні тому

    Some Kathryn Hepburn:
    Philadelphia Story
    Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
    Bringing up Baby
    Holiday
    The Lion in Winter
    Some Bogart:
    High Sierra
    The Big Sleep
    To have and have not
    Key largo
    Maltese falcon

  • @Pamtroy
    @Pamtroy 3 дні тому

    She's horrified because he's drinking alcohol. "Temperance" was very big back then, especially among evangelicals.

  • @vincentsaia6545
    @vincentsaia6545 3 дні тому +1

    More Bogart Classics:
    THE BIG SLEEP
    THE CAINE MUTINY
    TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
    KEY LARGO
    HIGH SIERRA
    THE MALTESE FALCON
    THE PETRIFIED FOREST
    SABRINA
    More Hepburn Classics:
    THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
    WOMAN OF THE YEAR
    BRINGING UP BABY
    THE LION IN WINTER
    ON GOLDEN POND
    PAT AND MIKE
    ADAM'S RIB
    GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
    MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

  • @massimosaffioti8798
    @massimosaffioti8798 2 дні тому

    More Hepburn?
    Bringing Up Baby
    Woman of the Year
    Adam's Rib
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    More Bogart?
    The Big Sleep
    Key Largo
    Sabrina
    The Desperate Hours
    Cheers!

  • @caoillainn
    @caoillainn 3 дні тому

    I don't like the white's superior attitude or how the native peoples were portrayed as flat stereotypes.

  • @williamjones6031
    @williamjones6031 3 дні тому

    This was one of the movies I had to watch in high school film study, but the joke was on them since I had already seen it. Fun movie.
    BTW Gin sucks.🤢