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Summary: A good movie. A very ,very good book.
Review: There is really not much to say except that the Hollywood movie is not really very much like the book. (Why does this not suprise me?) The story and the characters are much more human, possibly because they are not "Katharine H. and Boogie" and this is not Hollywood. The thundering falls, the hunger,the heat, the gloomy swamps, the smother lake of water lillies, the endless toil and hours...and then, in the end, to see their mission fail. As heart breaking and riviting as any book ever writen.
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Summary: The African Queen tells us that love conquers all.
Review: When her village in German Central Africa is destroyed at the start of WWI, a missionary is rescued by a gin-loving river miner. Their perilous escape on the beat up launch, the African Queen,turns into an outright battle against nature, the Germans, and each other as the tempestuous pair realize they have fallen in love. With this love they conquer the impossible, and by a miracle they survive to see the destruction of their enemy
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