African Queen Restoration: The restored print highlights just how green and gaunt Hepburn looked."

[Captain Hilts]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/may/11/anjelica-john-huston-african-queen

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Hepburn, much like her character, looked on Bogart and Huston's alcoholic regimen with disdain. She made a point of drinking only water, which ironically made her sick. Bogart and Huston, on the other hand, were fine. "All I ate was baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whisky," Bogart later recalled. "Whenever a fly bit Huston or me, it dropped dead." The restored print highlights just how green and gaunt Hepburn looked. During some scenes, a bucket was kept off-camera for her to throw up into between takes.

"It was very tough for Katie Hepburn," says Allen. "She had very definite ideas about everything and everybody. One day we were shooting a complicated shot and John said, 'Print it,' and she said, 'You weren't even watching!' John said, 'But I was listening.' 'But you weren't watching,' she insisted and demanded they do it again. To turn the whole flotilla around and come back down the river took hours. John did shoot another take, but we used the original anyway."
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There are tales of dysentery, diarrhoea and other tropical ailments, not to mention soldier ants, hippos, black mambas and crocodiles. But adversity drew everyone together. Bogart helped pull the African Queen out of the river when it sank one night, while Bacall mucked in with the catering. She and Hepburn became lifelong friends, and Hepburn ultimately came to admire Huston. Their relationship even became flirtatious, judging by the memoir she wrote later, entitled The Making of the African Queen, or How I Went to Africa With Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind.
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This admiration was mutual, says Anjelica. "I remember, towards the end of his life, we were all having dinner and Dad started to talk about The African Queen. He said, 'Katie was the best female friend I've ever had in my life.' And Lauren Bacall, this little voice at the end of table, piped up, 'Well what about me, John?' And he said, 'Oh honey, you were married to Bogey.'"

[joeybee12]

1. Have you seen it restored? I have a dvd of it before the restoration...

...wonder if I should break down and buy it.

[Captain Hilts]

2. I hear it's magnificent. They not only re-did the aging of the film, but also

worked on some of the technical limitations of the day.

I have not yet seen it, but friends have - one went to the premier in NYC - and two have bought it.

[joeybee12]

4. It's a great film...star power like never before...nt.

[Captain Hilts]

6. As you know, Bogart and Hepburn were voted the top male and female 20th Cent stars.

There's a reason for that!

We're lucky it did not get made with Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton OR Bette Davis and John Mills.

Hepburn and Bogart look like the jungle's been beating the crap out of them.

[joeybee12]

9. Elsa and Charles!

Now there's an unhappy couple!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

11. I vote for Clark Gable and Ingrid Bergman.

[joeybee12]

5. It's a great film...star power like never before...nt.

[madrchsod]

3. metropolis has been restored

every bit of usable film/frames that has found is included into the new edition.

you can`t go wrong buying the new restored version. even on my 10yr old tv tcm`s restored films are grand...

[Captain Hilts]

7. Interesting! I saw that in a theatre with live organ music. Very cool. nt

[joeybee12]

8. You're right...

...it'a great story with real star power, and probably worth it to see.

[fishwax]

10. I look forward to seeing that

it has been a long time since I've seen that film.