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...Best Actor Humphrey Bogart (who once snarled that Oscars are "hot air"), for his portrayal of a gin-soaked riverboat skipper in The African Queen (Horizon; United Artists...
...Charley Olnutt, the gin-oriented riverboat captain, Bogart is immense--not the same old "I wouldn't walk ten feet to watch Krakatoa explode" Bogart, but a new man, an epic slob. He revels in his new role, his eight day beard, dirty tennis shoes, and habit of drinking gin and river water for refreshment. And best of all, when he gets in a clinch with Hepburn, you can just barely detect him laughing at the whole concept of Charley Olnutt, the poor sinner reclaimed by patriotism and selfless love...
Captain Kent begins dropping his ethical ballast well before he reaches combat. The first value to go is fidelity. Kent loves the wife he left in England and has told himself he will be faithful to her. But the night comes when, sodden with gin and boredom, he seduces a Eurasian girl, mistaking her gasps of pain for pleasure. Afterwards, he loathes himself and the girl...
...Ulcers. In 1946 Wayne married again, this time a velvet-eyed Mexican movie actress named Esperanza Baur, whom he calls Chata (Pugnose). Tall, graceful Chata is almost a female counterpart of Duke's men friends. She loves to ride and shoot, and she plays a skillful hand of gin rummy. But Wayne has found little time to enjoy these pastimes with her. "My husband," Chata explained recently, "is one of the few persons who is always interested in his business. He talks of it constantly. When he reads, it's scripts. Our dinner guests always talk business...
...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 into running the guns of a German fort, shooting perilous rapids down to a lake patrolled...