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Flexing her muscles last week, Sheilah began her new job by dishing out some of the casual poison that has got her barred from the sets of such Hollywood stars as Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart. Samples: "Errol [Flynn] says he doesn't worry about money just as long as he can reconcile his net income with his gross habits . . . Lana Turner is saying that Bob Topping owes her $82,000. Moral: Never marry a trust fund...
Knock on Any Door. A Humphrey Bogart classic at Loew's Center...
...African Queen (Horizon; United Artists) is the name of a leaky, 30-ft. steam launch that wheezes along a remote little river in German East Africa, delivering mail and supplies. When World War I begins to creep into the jungle, Skipper Humphrey Bogart noses his boat into a quiet backwater, intending to sit out the fighting with a case or two of Gordon's gin. But he takes on an unwelcome passenger, Katharine Hepburn, a prissy, "skinny old maid" who has other ideas. Determined to strike a blow for King, country and her dead missionary brother, Hepburn browbeats Bogart...
...Essentially it is one long, exciting, old-fashioned movie chase. Filmed in the Belgian Congo and Uganda by Director John Huston, it tells its adventure yarn in a blaze of Technicolor, fine wild scenery and action. While hippos gambol in the shallows and crocodiles gape evilly from mudbanks, Bogart and Hepburn fight each other, the elements and the Germans. They are shot at by natives, drenched by torrential downpours, devoured by mosquitoes and blood-sucking leeches, felled by malarial fevers. They triumph over heat, hardship and heartbreak only to end as prisoners of the Germans, with the hangman...
...script, by Huston and James Agee, is faithful to the spirit of C. S. Forester's 1935 novel. Bogart, cast as a Canadian instead of a Cockney, does the best acting of his career as the badgered rumpot who becomes a man and a lover against his will. Katharine Hepburn is excellent as the gaunt, freckled, fanatic spinster. Their contrasting personalities fill the film with good scenes, beginning with Bogart's tea-table agony as the indelicate rumbling of his stomach keeps interrupting Missionary Robert Morley's chitchat about dear old England...